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Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations
Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations | Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander...and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. 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. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors. Rapture of the Nerds is a brilliant collaboration by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, two of the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk science fiction.
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 2! The subtitle: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations. This has a lot of big words that made my eyes pop as I glanced through it, lol. If you geek out on tech, cyberpunk, singularity think, machines have taken over, and zany characters, according to reviewers, you'll love this sci fi story. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

BookBabe Gotta love that title! 🤓 7y
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Caroline2
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I managed to get to day 7 on my book buying ban then I was early for an appt and wandered into Oxfam....! 😬 on day 2 now! 🙄

Libby1 Only 20?!? 🙀 7y
Caroline2 Yeah true; my TBR shelves go into the hundreds now which equally excites and terrifies me!!!! 😳 7y
8little_paws 20 is an understatement 7y
LisaJo Early to an appointment. Nodding in my head right along there with you. 7y
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The.Intentional.Reader
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Friday night reading !