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@ Hexren:

Putting it on my list. Thanks. :)

@ Naum:

It could be interesting, but the term “MMOG maker” and “AI Jesus” sort of ruined it for me. Does the AI actually claim to be Jesus or does it just play the generic messiah role?

I shall investigate this further on Amazon. I’m putting it on the list.

@ Daniel:

Read the linked page and it sounds interesting. Putting it on my list.

@ James Heaver:

Btw, this was recommended to be as “the best thing that Charles Stross wrote ever”. That said, I already bought one of his other books (I think Singularity Sky or something like that) – it is on my shelf now waiting to be read. :)

I saw Ken Macleod mentioned several times in Amazon reviews next to Vinge and Stross. I don’t think that I picked up anything by him in my latest batch book order but he is going on the list. I loved Dune.

Thats not a Charlie Stross I’ve read yet, I’ll have to add it to my list.

Another series of books you may well enjoy (and I started rereading last night) are the Ken Macleod books. I forget the name of the series I’ve just started reading, but the first book is ‘The Star Fraction’.

From my memories of the series (Its a good few years since I first read them) it is following collapse and reordering of society with its roots in the political movements of the 20th Century, through to post singularity worlds.

Macleod has a great grasp on alternative politics, he’s obviously been around the hard left and libertarian groups his whole life. He approaches them with both cynicism and sympathy – He appreciates their world views, but seems most of them as niaive. Whilst very much about these groups in the UK, it may well be interesting to someone who grew up in soviet (somewhere). The book has a politicking that I don’t see often in SF, except possibly Dune.

He brings in some very interesting ideas about the nature of the singularity, what it results in and how we as a species deal with it.

Ken Macleod is one of my favourite authors and I couldn’t recommend him highly enough.

Another book that springs to mind is Fairyland by Paul McAuley. Its cyberpunky and built around the effects of nanotechnology and biotech.

Sounds indeed quite interesting!
A book that blew me away was

“Stone” by Adam Roberts.

It has no real twists or so, but the way the future is imagined (space travel is just possible because we live in some kind of stellar “bubble” that will close someday, but heck nobody cares) and mankind has adopted nanotechnology at a really ubiquitous level…

Here’s a link. i can really recommend it
http://www.adamroberts.com/writing/stone/

Sounds interesting…

Not a big fiction fan, though SF/Fantasy titles I infrequently enjoy…

This/these title/series? blew me away:

Daemon
Freedom

by Daniel Suarez

Basically, savant MMOG maker unleashes AI bot Jesus on the world, a daemon that wreaks havoc and attempts to establish a new order…

Far fetched poppycock, yes, but still plausible and all the tech in the book does exist in some form or another already…

Hi,

try something by Alastair Reynolds I liked Galactic North.

Oli