[nicopappl]

Diaspora is a book for Math PhDs, involving a lot of physics and math theories. Accelerando is a book that anyone can read. Involving hyperintelligent cats and sentient shrimps (actual shrimps, not aliens).

I would recommend it not just for the philosophical aspect (it has a very interesting way of placating transhumanism) but also for the entertainment aspect (aforementioned shrimps, did I mention the Iranian space program?)

Stross is a very approachable author, Accelerando is not his most accessible book, but if you can go through half of Diaspora, you can easily go through the entirety of Accelerando.

[lproven]

I think you mean lobsters.

Accelerando is a fixup of a bunch of short stories, and one was "Lobsters".

https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/lobsters-%E2%80%A...

[valbis]

I don't mind technical fiction, and I love a good hard scifi, but I guess the part of science I am most interested on (when I read literature) is the psychological one - Blindsight is by far my favourite sci-f. However I am totally up for trying Accellerando, so thank you for the reccomendation, you sold it to me :P

[mietek]

Try Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SF series; particularly “Children of Time” and “Bioforms”.