[SFRA-L] Texts for Class on Tech. Singularity

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/4/2011 3:01 PM, Williams, Nathaniel wrote:

> we added some notes/background materials for that book.  They're available athttp://www.aboutsf.com/main/studies-science-fiction-novels/lesson-11-cyberpunk-and-singularity

<Stross ... has been categorized with “a new generation of British 
science-fiction writers who specialize in hard science fiction and space 
opera,” and Accelerando has been called “the rapture of the nerds.” >

Well, no (or if it was it shouldn't have been). The Singularity as a 
technological projection and narrative trajectory has been jeered at in 
those terms (notably by Charlie's pal Ken MacLeod in a novel of his 
own--THE CASSINI DIVISION--in which, despite a character's making this 
dismissive remark, a Singularity nonetheless occurs). I doubt that a 
single novel could reasonably be dubbed "the rapture" of any kind.

Damien Broderick