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The Rapture Of The Nerds: A Tale Of The Singularity, Posthumanity, And Awkward Social Situations (2012)

by Cory Doctorow(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0765329107 (ISBN13: 9780765329103)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: I would definitely look for more books by these authors, but I wasn't overwhelmed with affection for this one. I'm fascinated by the Singularity, and I want to read more fictions about this possible future. The characters are not very appealing to me, the humour is there but not entirely to my taste. There just isn't enough genuinely funny SF around- so I admire them greatly for the effort to add to that niche.
review 2: Mindbendingly interesting, and requiring a nerd card for admission, I've never read anything that required such a deep background in so much and demanded this level of flexibility in terms of adjusting to the changes and multiple interior arcs of the protagonist. The narrative jumpiness of the Illuminatus books are co-opted here, as are many of... more the best elements of Sewer, Gas & Electric, and the broad undercurrent of Doctorow's whole philosophy is on full, peacock-like display. If this book suffers from anything, it's that many of the characters are slaves to the relentless pace of the story and so are not very fleshed out, and so occupy parts of the scenery, instead of being finished constructions. It's brilliant and horrifying and sometimes irritating and totally worth the time. less

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