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themselves to become the virtualised crew. They are contacted by a group of aliens called "The Wunch", who occupy virtual bodies based on
Lobster patterns "borrowed" from Manfred's original transmissions. The Wunch turn out to be thieving, third-rate "barbarians" who, after a struggle, are thwarted.
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Saturnian floating cities, Amber, Annette, Gianni and Manfred begin a political campaign to finance a scheme to escape the predations of the "Vile Offspring" by journeying once more to the router network, with Amber as the leader of the "Accelerationista" party. She
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have created their own network, enabling them to explore vast distances. Habitats built around
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a talking cat: it's a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they're dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive
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film and music to the net, and a plan to thwart his grasping wife and her lawyers—come together perfectly. Amber, Manfred's daughter, has been defrosted and born, and is being brought up by Pamela.
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1802:Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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2928:Short stories by Charles Stross
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2131:Toast: And Other Rusted Futures
1744:"Accelerando - Charlie's Diary"
1578:. Precast.org. 15 December 2012
1112:Nebula Award for Best Novelette
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711:small, privately owned asteroid
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2807:The Kaiju Preservation Society
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2953:Fiction about asteroid mining
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2968:Novels about virtual reality
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2795:A Desolation Called Peace
2486:To Say Nothing of the Dog
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1230:The original short story
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1236:Asimov's Science Fiction
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2748:The Calculating Stars
2736:The Collapsing Empire
2271:The Many-Colored Land
1906:The Fuller Memorandum
1890:The Atrocity Archives
1800:title listing at the
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2550:Kim Stanley Robinson
2474:The Rise of Endymion
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2443:Lois McMaster Bujold
2431:Kim Stanley Robinson
2407:Lois McMaster Bujold
2390:The Fall of Hyperion
2331:Speaker for the Dead
1975:The Merchant Princes
1938:The Nightmare Stacks
1914:The Apocalypse Codex
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2908:2005 British novels
2025:The Trade of Queens
1954:The Labyrinth Index
1898:The Jennifer Morgue
1784:SciFi.com interview
1778:Technical Companion
1632:. cm.bell-labs.co.
972:Rubberized concrete
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479:Sirhan al-Khurasani
445:Dr. Sadeq Khurasani
213:CC BY-NC-ND license
192:PR6119.T79 A63 2005
120:Print (hardcover),
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2850:Best Fantasy Novel
2652:Blackout/All Clear
2307:The Integral Trees
2009:The Merchants' War
2001:The Clan Corporate
1962:Dead Lies Dreaming
1946:The Delirium Brief
1701:on 26 October 2015
1610:on 17 October 2004
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1333:Worlds Without End
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2569:The Baroque Cycle
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1026:Ken Thompson
1005:Hans Moravec
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33:Accelerando
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2741:John Scalzi
2724:Death's End
2681:John Scalzi
2664:Embassytown
2581:Accelerando
2562:Dan Simmons
2521:The Telling
2479:Dan Simmons
2395:Dan Simmons
2383:Dan Simmons
2319:The Postman
2312:Larry Niven
2252:John Varley
2228:Locus Award
2155:Missile Gap
2139:Accelerando
1797:Accelerando
1790:Accelerando
1776:Accelerando
1614:24 February
1554:(4): 1661.
1257:Accelerando
1068:Locus Award
1064:Accelerando
781:April 2003
779:"Nightfall"
742:brown dwarf
596:, a way to
547:brain-scans
421:Arianespace
340:Accelerando
318:Accelerando
277:generations
249:accelerando
221:Locus Award
217:Accelerando
200:Accelerando
104:5 July 2005
2902:Categories
2838:Best Novel
2717:Ann Leckie
2705:Ann Leckie
2640:Boneshaker
2426:Green Mars
2348:David Brin
2324:David Brin
2300:David Brin
2276:Julian May
2170:Palimpsest
2147:Glasshouse
2041:Dark State
1655:I get mail
1304:References
1144:BSFA Award
1076:BSFA award
998:roboticist
923:improve it
878:"Survivor"
738:light-year
699:third moon
682:June 2002
524:June 2001
522:"Lobsters"
439:Amber Macx
375:Characters
368:Star Maker
354:networks.
327:everything
285:novelettes
211:under the
2729:Liu Cixin
2676:Redshirts
2462:Blue Mars
1250:ManyBooks
1021:basilisks
981:bandwidth
939:July 2021
927:verifying
862:"Elector"
822:"Curator"
762:lightsail
740:-distant
715:sovereign
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