Singularity Sky by Charles Stross, Orbit, £12.99, ISBN 1841493333 Reviewed by David Langford
SINGULARITY SKY is UK author Charles Stross’s first novel: an imaginative, melodramatic and often hilarious space opera. It is set centuries after our technological progress accelerates beyond comprehension into a “singularity” (today’s favourite SF concept) that changes everything.
Yes, now there is a God. The Eschaton is an artificial intelligence that jealously guards its own existence, forbidding violations of causality that might cancel its 21st-century emergence. But when an interstellar travelling circus called the Festival offers terrifying freedoms to a human colony world, the local overlords adopt…
