Nice ideas, way too long, I quit without finishing. Not at all to compare with hidden family or halting state. ( )

This book is so densely packed with ideas that it's hard to move, and also a bit hard to find a place to start talking about why I enjoyed the story. Stross starts in our today, but very quickly moves to our tomorrow in an organic way. I think his way of storytelling across 3 generations is effective, as is his use of the backdrop to frame a discussion about the ideas of self identity and rights progressing with technology and time is equally so.

As ever, the author pokes fun at the absurdity of some of our present in a fun and overstated way (turning the IRS into debt collectors, US outsourcing intelligence and becoming irrelevant, selling the RIAA to literal knee-breaking gangsters, sex in a world that can't be shocked).

There was a ton to love about this book, and the only thing I didn't was the rushed ending. It would be hard to recommend this to anyone but Stephenson/Gibson geeks, but I think they would all love it. ( )

Not a fan of this novel. Although there are some very interesting ideas in this novel, the narrative ultimate lacks a certain cohesion due to the fact that the novel is made up of separate stories. The excessive technobabble doesn't help either. In spite of this, I still might try Glasshouse or one of his later novels one day. ( )

Having recently finished reading my first Charles Stross novel, Glasshouse, which purports to be a loose sequel to Accelerando, I was keen to read this story to get some more information about the posthuman universe featured in both books.

Rather than strain my already bursting bookshelves further than necessary, I elected to read the freely available e-book version directly from my computer screen. I always find it somewhat more difficult to read books in this format, which probably helps to explain why I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Glasshouse. I found it to be a very interesting and thought-provoking story although quite confusing in places due to the sheer volume of new ideas that were being presented at every turn (exacerbated by the difficulty of reading on-screen without too much skimming).

With these two novels under my belt, I'm certainly keen to read more of what Charles Stross has to offer. ( )

This book contains some really interesting ideas on posthumanity, but also drags a little in the plot department at points. ( )