[Singularity]

<[Saalon]> Been reading Accelerando on your advice. About halfway through at this point, right in the middle of the second story.  I'm sort of wrestling through the dichotomy of really good writing with a weird, piecemeal story layered over top of it, but past that it's forcing a lot of disturbed thoughts at me, re: its subject matter.


<[Brennen]> Yeah. I want to say more about this, but a lot of it is still kind of swirling around in my head. It feels moderately incoherent as a novel - I got to wondering if it wasn't a fix-up from some preexisting short fiction, although I haven't actually looked up whether that's the case.

Stross published a blog entry a few days ago titled [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html three arguments against the singularity], which you probably want to read, but I'd say finish ''Accelerando'' first.


<[Saalon]> Yeah, it is a fix-up of preexisting short fiction, and it shows.  Though that's only half the problem of the incoherency; sometimes, even mid-short it's a bit of a mess, plot-wise.  But the writing is otherwise kind of excellent, so I don't want to bitch too much.

Anyway, into the last third, so we'll be talking soon I'm sure.