Accelerando

Accelerando Stross, Charles Published: 2005 Categorie(s): Fiction, Science Fiction Source: http://www.accelerando.org/ 1 About Stross: Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy. Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries in-clude Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod and Liz Williams. Obvious in-spirations include Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, among other cyberpunk and postcyberpunk writers. His first published short story, "The Boys", appeared in Interzone in 1987: his first novel, Singularity Sky was published by Ace in 2003 and was nom-inated for the Hugo Award. A collection of his short stories, Toast: And Other Rusted Futures appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella "The Concrete Jungle" won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. Most recently, Accelerando won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the year`s best science fiction novel, and was on the final bal-lot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Glasshouse is on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for Ad-vanced Dungeons & Dragons in the White Dwarf magazine. Some of his creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R. Martin`s book, Dying of the Light), githzerai, and slaad were later published in the Fiend Folio monster compendium. In addition to work-ing as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times. He holds de-grees in Pharmacy and Computer Science. Rogue Farm, a machinima film based on his 2003 short story of the same title, debuted in August 2004. He is one of the Guests of Honour at Orbital 2008 the British Na-tional Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in March 2008. Source: Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Stross: · Appeals Court (2005) · Scratch Monkey (1993) · Jury Service (2002) Copyright: Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. 2 Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. 3 License Copyright © Charles Stross, 2005. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions: * Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. * Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. * No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the li-cense terms of this work. If you are in doubt about any proposed reuse, you should contact the author via: www.accelerando.org. 4 Acknowledgements This book took me five years to write – a personal record – and would not exist without the support and encouragement of a host of friends, and several friendly editors. Among the many people who read and commented on the early drafts are: Andrew J. Wilson, Stef Pearson, Gav Inglis, Andrew Ferguson, Jack Deighton, Jane McKie, Hannu Rajaniemi, Martin Page, Stephen Christian, Simon Bisson, Paul Fraser, Dave Cle-ments, Ken MacLeod, Damien Broderick, Damon Sicore, Cory Doctorow, Emmet O`Brien, Andrew Ducker, Warren Ellis, and Peter Hollo. (If your name isn`t on this list, blame my memory – my neural prostheses are off-line.) I mentioned several friendly editors earlier: I relied on the talented midwifery of Gardner Dozois, who edited Asimov`s Science Fiction Magazine at the time, and Sheila Williams, who quietly and diligently kept the wheels rolling. My agent Caitlin Blasdell had a hand in it too, and I`d like to thank my editors Ginjer Buchanan at Ace and Tim Hol-man at Orbit for their helpful comments and advice. Finally, I`d like to thank everyone who e-mailed me to ask when the book was coming, or who voted for the stories that were shortlisted for awards. You did a great job of keeping me focused, even during the peri-ods when the whole project was too daunting to contemplate. 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn