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Description edit
Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, Charles Stross delivers the story fans and peers have been expecting with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.
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Characters/People edit
- Manfred Maxx: Part 1 protagonist
- Annette: Manfred's lover
- Sirhan: A resident of a city orbiting Saturn
- Pamela: Manfred's lover and eventual wife; mother of Amber.
- Pierre: Amber's lover and crewmate on a voyage to an alien router in orbit around a brown dwarf star
- Rita: A political operative we meet in the city orbiting Saturn
- Boris: One of the members of the team that voyaged to the alien router
- Aineko: A robotic pet cat belonging to Manfred
- Gianni: A European Union politician
- Manni: Add a description of this character.
- Donna
- Manny
- Sadeq: A Muslim cleric who becomes involved with the voyage to the alien router.
- Bob Franklin
- Wunch: Alien intelligences encountered during the voyage to the alien router
- Manfred Macx: The protagonist in the first part of the book; Manfred comes up with ideas that he gives to other people who then make a lot of money off of them.
- Sanger
- Matrioshka: The original Matrioshka refers to the Russian nesting dolls; in this novel it is used to describe artificial intelligences that nest inside each other.
- Alan
- Amber: The daughter of Manfred Macx and Pamela; she is born after Manfred and Pamela separate so she is raised by her mother and does not meet her father until much later in life, though she does manage to speak to him on the phone occasionally
- Jack
- Su Ang: Member of the crew on the voyage to the alien router.
- Dyson
- Monica
First Sentence edit
Manfred's on the road again, making strangers rich.
Table of Contents edit
Part 1: Slow Take-Off
1: Lobsters
2: Troubadour
3: Tourist
Part 2: Point of Inflection
4: Halo
5: Router
6: Nightfall
Part 3: Singularity
7: Curator
8: Elector
9: Survivor
Authors & Contributors edit
- Charles Stross (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ace.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0441012841
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ace.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0441012841
Page Count: 400
Awards edit
- Locus Science Fiction Award (2006, Winner)
- Arthur C. Clarke Award (Finalist, 2006)
- BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) (Finalist, 2005)
- Prometheus Award (2006: Best Novel, Nominee)
- Hugo Award (Finalist, 2006: Best Novel)
- Geffen Award (Finalist, 2012: Best Translated Science Fiction Book)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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