Accelerando - Serialising Lobsters

I make no apologies about being a sci-fi geek. Being a software geek pays the bills so I think I deserve a bit of extra-curricular sci-fi geekiness. In that vain I just have to recommend Accelerando by Charles Stross – it drips with geeky goodness.

I can’t begin to summarise the plot – all I can do it assure you that the book positively fizzes from page 1. Not enough, you want more of a reason to buy, read and adore this lovely tome. OK

1. Mr Stross is was a computer scientist amongst other things and it the first sci-fi book that I’ve read to really have that embedded in it. At the start of the book sentient lobsters get serialised and sent up a data stream – Fab.
2. One of the main characters is a cat. It total catches the animal’s don’t give a damn attitude – double Fab
3. Charlieboy Stross comes from my hometown, Leeds. I have a LOT of regional pride soooo – Triple Fab.

If I had to categorise it then its cyberpunk without the noir elements and it’s actually well written unlike other so called cyberpunk classics i.e. everything I’ve ever read by William Gibson.