The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Singularity, Posthumanity, and Awkward Social Situations
- ISBN-10
- 0765329107
- ISBN-13
- 9780765329103
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-04
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
Description
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
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