The Rapture of the Nerds is a 2012 novel by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. (Not unexpected, given that it's Cory Doctorow.

A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose.

I enjoyed this for the first few hours of the audio version, but found the plot went sideways about 1/3 of the way through, when the book becomes a longer exploration of the destruction of earth as taken from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Not that it's not threatened already--much of North America is inhabited by a giant ant colony with its own agenda, which includes eating everything and everybody it finds. I liked The Gone-Away World and Year Zero. --Nerd Like You About the Author. And the first of the three component stories here, 'Jury Service', suggests that the two of them writing together will make for the wrong sort of matey self-indulgence - it's all tech buzzwords and madcap techno-picaresque, like somebody's running a bad simulation ofCharles Stross is, in a few months, going to be Britain's best science fiction writer. "I'm pleased to inform you that our ancient land is quite tolerant of other cultures' customs. What tripped me up was the dour, unlikeable protagonist, Hew, whose racist and transphobic point of view we are expected to follow.

The overall message was cool and lots of things to think about. I also bought the hardcopy, you know, for the shelf, if the first godlike AI will … wait, has this already happened ?I’m currently digging into the fan conversion epub file, linked to above. However, the first half can be rather plodding, confusing and lacking in substance. .

A plastic sheet has hermetically sealed Huw's side of the room off from the rest of the consulate. ""Then we will see you soon." They want to be able to talk to potential foreign publishers about how this stuff works, to give me time to talk with them, to ease them into the idea, and to have the kind of extended conversation that helped me lead Tor into their decision all those years ago.And I agreed. Our POV EveryWo/Man techno-phobe, Huw, gets dragged along like Rincewind on a mission to Save Humanity – err, whatever that means post-uplift, post-singularity – that s/he profoundly resists being part of. This is a book that normally I would not have read, but I was travelling, and the free book was convenient, so I read it moderately quickly. It’s great of you to also make them freely available in this way.Bought one, and then bought another copy to the best sci-fi author in Norway, Tor Åge Bringsværd, and mailed him the copy. Keep up the good work.Looks like the PDF link is fixed. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.” It was released on September 4, 2012 through Tor Books and as an ebook, DRM free, under the CC BY-NC-ND. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Published It truly is an enjoyable book that is well worth your time, for the humor and descriptions alone. I made it to page 100, wading through the woes of a Welshman in a Libyan setting that feels like Aladdin crossed with Raiders of the Lost Arc, and not in a good way.

We’d love your help. My opinion of this is basically complete indifference. The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations. This will be the first book of yours I’ve read and honestly can’t afford it otherwise.

Gonzo post-singularity speculative fiction by the, I am sure to be re-united again, duo of Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. for roughly the first half of this book. If I had to choose who wrote which parts, I would refuse to try since the prose, style and diction are almost indistinguishable. Like a chump, I bought the hardcover so to get my money's worth I'm going to hollow it out and keep a collection of dead bees in there or something.This book totally blew me away. . Cory Doctorow is a very smart guy and a good columnist whose fiction has generally left me cold, seeming a little too ready to show its workings.

Working in the publishing industry is virtually a vow of poverty. — that I consider publishing books under a NoDerivs license, so that I can consult with them before I authorize translations of my books. ""Your, that is, your — " The smiler leans across his desk and points at Huw's trefoil-marked forehead. BUY NOW FROM. And the first third was much much worse than the rest of the book. If you would be pleased to travel to our beautiful country, I can assure you of just one week's jury service. I thought "Little Brother" was great, so I was prepared to adore RoTN.

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