Singularity Sky (Singularity, #1) (Singularity Sky)

by Charles Stross

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.

In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins.               

The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

• ISBN10: 0441010725
• ISBN13: 9780441010721
• Publish Date: 5 August 2003
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Ace Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 313
• Language: English

Reviews

[adastra]

I just couldn't really get into this book, which probably explains why I needed almost a year to finish it. It's got a very interesting premise and a very interesting universe, but I found the plot rather lacking. It just all seemed a bit too random for me and it took the entire book to recognize a connection.

[wyvernfriend]

an interesting book that took a while to get into. What would happen in a world where knowledge is repressed when a more technologically advanced civilizaton offers them unlimited knowledge, provided they entertain them? Chaos ensues and when the planet in charge decides to try to intervene the UN inspector finds herself fighting sexism and attitude. Everyone has an agenda and everything is going to change.

Not exactly to my taste but Mac is going to try it, he's more of the space opera fan.