Marooned in Realtime

Recommended by Eliezer Yudkowsky (see below).
==Ratings, awards, mentions and recommendations==
===Yudkowsky's recommendation===
====Books of future shock====
(Referring to this, A Fire Upon the Deep, and True Names)
Three books, in three completely different Universes, that present in three ways the Vingean Singularity. Will the rise of greater-than-human intelligence be like this? No. Of course not. It'll be completely different. We can't see beyond that horizon... but Vinge takes us right up to it, and makes us see the wall stretching ahead. Short of experiencing our actual Singularity, the Vinge novels come as close to drawing a picture of What Lies Beyond, as we will ever see...
A Fire Upon the Deep is probably the best of these; it comes right out and shows you the Transcendents, awesome, moving on a galactic scale. And oh, yes, it won a Hugo.
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