num_pages: 390
description: Stross' latest novel follows several generations of the Macx family through the rapidly transforming, Internet-enabled global economy of the early twenty-first century to the human and transhuman populated worlds of the outer solar system a half century later. The saga begins with Macx patriarch Manfred, a freelance "venture altruist," giving away patentable high-tech ideas in exchange for endless handouts while looking forward to the day when nanotech-programmed smart matter surpasses humanity in intelligence and productivity. Fifteen years later, his adolescent daughter Amber is an indentured astronaut trolling the orbit of Jupiter, and by 2070, Sirhan is Amber's permanently space-bound offspring, paying witness to the fruits of his grandfather's early innovations as something ominous and nonhuman is systematically dismantling the planets from Pluto to Earth.
language: English
title: Accelerando
titlecomplete: Accelerando
genres: Science Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Space Opera, Hard Science Fiction, Singularity, Unfinished, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 21060
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: Ace Books