1/6/2024 0 Comments Dead space books timeline![]() ![]() Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, believes that there’s more to Krina’s search than meets the eye. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. She’s on a journey to the water world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. The human species is nearly extinct-for the fourth time-due to its fragile nature. The term was used earlier in this way by Kim Stanley Robinson in his 1985 novel The Memory of Whiteness and again in his 1992–96 Mars trilogy. In Stross’s novel, it refers to the accelerating rate at which humanity in general, and/or the novel’s characters, head towards the technological singularity. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother and seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all humanity.Ībout the title: in Italian, accelerando means “speeding up” and is used as a tempo marking in musical notation. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect.
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