Notes on 'Accellerando' (2005) by Charles Stross (b. 1964)
Belonging to a new generation of sf authors which came to prominence post-2000, Charles Stross captures better than anybody else the dizzying times of rapid technological development we live in. Accellerando is deliriously fast-paced space opera that fleshes out the lives of one family caught in the take-off phase of a technological singularity. It won the Locus award for Best SF Novel (2006), and came second for the Hugo award for Best Novel (2006).