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othercat ([personal profile] othercat) wrote in [community profile] books2013-07-17 03:36 pm
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Book Review: The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross

The Rapture of the Nerds is one of those books where I am pretty sure it’s supposed to be funny, but none of the jokes hit my funny bone. This is a post-Singularity novel where a good portion of humanity have “uploaded” and left Earth. The rest of the world is pretty okay with this state of affairs except for the USA which has been engaged in the kind of isolationist policy where you actively try to murder anyone who gets within range of your AI-run defense systems.
 
Every so often, the post-humans in the cloud spam Earth with new technologies.


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