Редактирование: Accelerando (раздел)

== Plot ==
The novel follows three generations of the Macx clan. In the first part of the book, the plot revolves around Manfred Macx, internet nerdwealth crossdresser, in the early decades of the 21st century, starting in 2013. Manfred is an entrepreneur who has made a fortune using algorithms to create intellectual property. Manfred is a singulatarian always trying to keep his wearable tech ahead of the curve. His wearable supercomputer develops into a metacortex, which, when stolen by a druggie causes a severe case of memory loss and depersonalization. 

In the second part, his daughter, Amber becomes an indentured astronaut helping mine resources from Jupiter’s moons and harnest energy and rare isotopes from Jupiter’s atmosphere. By Amber’s time, uploading has become common. The third and last part follows Amber's son Sirhan as he struggles to help preserve human civilization in the face of the Vile Offspring, the group of 'weakly-godlike superintelligences' that inhabit a cloud of nanocomputers encircling the sun. 

Since the novel is actually a collection of short stories, descriptions of concepts and characters are sometimes repeated. While noticeable, this doesn’t turn out to be a huge flaw, and may actually assist some readers in keeping track of the story. The book includes a dazzling array of concepts, including [[mind uploading|uploading]], [[starwhisp]]s, [[utility fog]], [[computronium]], [[gray goo]], [[hive mind|borganisms]], [[decentralized autonomous organization]], distributed intelligences, [[Matrioshka brain]]s ( [[Dyson sphere]]s) ,  [[space elevator]]s, [[assembler]]s, [[super-Turing oracle]]s, and many other singulatarian and futurist tropes. Stross usually assumes that the reader is familiar with most of these concepts, usually offering one line explanations at best. Almost all of these concepts have appeared before in science fiction, but rarely have they been combined into a seamless whole.