The Rapture of the Nerds - Cory Doctorow

The Rapture of the Nerds

By: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross

Paperback | 19 November 2013

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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.

The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wanderand when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.

So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.
Rapture of the Nerds is a brilliant collaboration by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, two of the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk science fiction.

Industry Reviews
There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to "Makers" that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling.--Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians "There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to Makers that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling." --Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians

"If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades." --The Times (London) There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to Makers that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling. Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians

If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades. The Times (London)

" There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to "Makers" that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling. Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians

If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades. "The Times (London)"" "There's a superhuman energy and intelligence to "Makers" that I haven't see since mid-period Bruce Sterling." --Lev Grossman, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Magicians" "If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades." --"The Times" (London)

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