On 30-Mar-12 9:45 AM, Thejaswi Udupa wrote: > Stross is a genius. He is one of the few SF authors whose understanding > of how computer science works is closer to how it actually works, and > that results in the right kind of geekery in his books. I can see how a > book like Accelerando can piss people off with its singleminded goal > of mindfuckery - but to me that book was one of the finest examples of > 'literature of ideas'. It was like an Olaf Stapledon book, but in a > language that was much less tedious, and hence a pleasure to read. While > he is more famous for this kind of SF, that's not all there is to him. > The Eschaton books, Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, were excellent > hard sci-fi/ space opera. Little Brother read like a Heinlein juvenile > updated for the Internet age.
+1, and a nit: Little Brother is by Stross' on-and-off collaborator and silklist member, Cory Doctorow. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
