[yboris]

I once commented on HN how my favorite Sci Fi novel is Accelerando and the author, Charles Stross, replied to it suggesting I try his The Rapture of the Nerds he co-wrote with Cory Doctorow; I loved it when I read it too.

I love HN - it's basically the only website I visit these days (aside checking mail, watching YouTube, and gardening my GitHub repositories).

[number6]

Accelerando is one of my favourite too! Thanks for sharing the reply, always love book recommendations

[jaggederest]

In a thematically similar but very different vein, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series was an enjoyable read.

I also recommend Eric Nylund's work, specifically Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered.

Edit: Well, there you go, Children of Time had 23 mentions now that I've read down further. Disappointed to see Eric Nylund's work fade into obscurity, I rate him up with Neal Stephenson.

[zaneyard]

I thought I recognized that name: Nylund also wrote some books for the Halo series which I enjoyed, although I was already a fan of the games.

[jaggederest]

I believe he was a staff writer for the Halo series in house as well, something like Marc Laidlaw at Valve, and the books emerged from internal storytelling written for the series. Very interesting stuff.

I also highly recommend his older books Pawn's Dream, Dry Water, and especially A Game Of Universe. They're available on Kindle and part of the Unlimited program so easy to check out.

[watersb]

I haven't been able to find Eric Nylund's "Signal to Noise" and sequel "A Signsl Shattered" in ebook format.

But they are strange and great.

[aspenmayer]

Those two novels of Nylund's really captured the "dark forest" concept well, though I won't say more so as to avoid spoilers.

I haven't read the source material so I can't speak to the books, but the adaptations of 3 Body (Problem) that I've watched, both the Tencent and Netflix ones, also explore similar themes to Nylund's works. Heck, I just discovered that Liu Cixin coined the "dark forest" term, though he isn't the first to explore it.

[troyvit]

I must finished my last book and grabbed Accelerando blind based on ya all's recommendation and damn it's great. Thank you!

[yuzhun]

Not long ago I came across this book in an HN thread about AI and the future. The moment I saw the title, I knew I had to read it. Crypto, AI, collective intelligence — it hits all the right notes for me.

[bananaflag]

If you want some other portrayals of the Singularity, see The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect and Friendship is Optimal (and also Caelum Est Conterrens)

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

It was good. Depressing, but good. While not singularity, some motiff and predictions seem to align.

I would still add:

Snow crash Rainbow's end

[nehal3m]

The Singularity series by William Hertling were fun reads in that category too.

[parkersweb]

Amazon lists it as book 3 of 3 in a series - do you need to have read the first two?

[yboris]

Never read the first two, love Accelerando, unsure what I was missing; feels like a well-written self-contained story.

[smoyer]

Just reread Accelerando ... Still awesome.

[hermitcrab]

I really appreciate Cory Doctorow's work on digital rights, enshittification and other topics, but I couldn't make it more than half way through 'Rapture of the nerds'. Just too strange, I couldn't connect to it. It is very original though. Some people will probably love it.