Accelerando (ISBN 0441012841) is a 2005 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. It has been released online [1] under a creative commons license. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Charles Stross at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow Charles David George Stross (born October 18, 1964) is a science fiction writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo Some Rights reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ...

The book is the story of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family as the world approaches and enters the technological singularity. It was originally written as nine novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction. The first three stories follow the character of "venture altruist" Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely tranformed world at the end of the century. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s [2]. Generation is the act of producing offspring, or procreation. ... Family dysfunction can be any circumstance that interferes with healthy family functioning. ... When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of key events in human history show an exponential trend. ... A novelette (or novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. ... A novella is a short, narrative, prose fiction work. ... Asimovs Science Fiction is a major science fiction magazine, which publishes both science fiction and fantasy. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...

The original stories, as published in Asimov's Science Fiction:

• "Lobsters" (June 2001) was shortlisted for the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was runner-up for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
• "Troubador" (October/November 2001)
• "Tourist" (February 2002)
• "Halo" (June 2002) was shortlisted for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and Theodore Sturgeon Award.
• "Router" (September 2002) was shortlisted for the 2003 BSFA Award.
• "Nightfall" (April 2003) was shortlisted for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
• "Curator" (December 2003)
• "Elector" (September 2004) was shortlisted for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella. The original version is available online.
• "Survivor" (October/November 2004)

He has finished a sequel novel entitled Glasshouse, scheduled to be published in 2006. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // About this award According to Article 3. ... Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // About this award According to Article 3. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) annually presents four awards (though numbers have differed in previous years) based on a vote of BSFA members and recently also members of EasterCon. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // About this award According to Article 3. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Winners of the Hugo Award for best novella. ...

See also

• Accelerando Technical Companion (on wikibooks)

External links

• Accelerando website containing the full text of the novel as well as Stross's notes for the series.
• Interview conducted by Lou Anders at RevolutionSF, with extensive discussion of the stories.
• Charlie Stross offers latest novel, Accelerando, for free (The Alien Online, 8/26/2005): Includes commentary from Stross about reasons for releasing freely-downloadable novels.