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| title = Accelerando
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| author = Charles Stross
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| elevator pitch = "[A] collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity." ''(Wikipedia)''
| genre = Short story collection
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| publication date = July 5, 2005
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'''''Accelerando''''' is a [[Speculative Fiction]] short-story collection by [[Charles Stross]].
''Accelerando'' follows the lives of the Macx family through several generations as the world goes through [[The Singularity]], beginning in a [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|near-future setting]] and progressing through more and more advanced settings.
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* [[
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] (the main character of ''Glasshouse'' practically exemplifies this trope, although it's subverted in that {{spoiler|he was good both before and after he had amnesia, but he was simply more violent}})▼
* [[Apocalypse How]]: A variation on Stellar, in the sense that the solar system isn't destroyed per se, just converted from dumb mass to computronium by the Vile Offspring. The (trans)humans who weren't active (or involuntary) participants got the hell out while the getting was good.
* [[Augmented Reality]]: Pretty much everybody.
* [[Cats Are Snarkers]] / [[Cats Are Superior]]: Aineko lives for this.
* [[Brain Uploading]]:
* [[Fantastic Religious Weirdness]]:
** To say nothing of the difficulties inherent in facing Mecca to pray while you're in space.
* [[Invisible Aliens]]:
* [[Generational Saga]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]:
* [[Memory Gambit]] (in ''Glasshouse'', the main character erased whole chunks of his memory so {{spoiler|he could infiltrate a secret facility}})▼
* [[Patchwork Story]]: ''Accelerando'' started its life as nine short stories.
* [[Mind Virus]]: "CuriousYellow", a virus that's done an unknown amount of damage...because one of the things the virus did was erase the memories of anyone who knew why it was released in the first place. ▼
* [[The Singularity]]: The entire point of ''Accelerando''.
▲* [[Non-Human Sidekick]] (Manfred's cat who is a combination of a [[Talking Animal]] and [[Robot Buddy]] and, it turns out, {{spoiler|is behind almost everything}})
* [[
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: The Vile Offspring became so technologically and neurologically divergent
* [[Shout Out]]: In ''Glasshouse'', [[The Virus|Curious Yellow]] is named after to the Swedish film ''I Am Curious (Yellow)'' (or more directly, after a paper about computer worm design).▼
==Glasshouse==
''[[Glasshouse]]'' is a standalone novel, according to [[Word of God]]: '[http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/06/crib-sheet-glasshouse.html I ''originally'' wanted to use the "Accelerando" setting for other novels, including "Glasshouse", but decided it was too cluttered/unpredictable. So "Glasshouse" is a stand-alone]' However, fan thought at the time of the TVT/ATT fork was that ''Glasshouse'' was a sequel to ''Accelerando'', so it has some tropes on this page. Rather than simply deleting those tropes, they have been moved here until ''Glasshouse'' gets its own page.
▲* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]:
▲* [[Memory Gambit]]:
▲* [[Mind Virus]]: "CuriousYellow", a virus that's done an unknown amount of damage...because one of the things the virus did was erase the memories of anyone who knew why it was released in the first place.
▲* [[Shout
** [[La Résistance|the Linebarger Cats]] are named in honor of Paul Linebarger, who literally wrote the book on psychological warfare, and his well-known proclivity for cats and [[Catgirl|catgirls]]. He's better known to sci-fi fans as [[Cordwainer Smith]]. One of the cover companies the Cats use is Cordwainer Heavy Industries. Another is the [[Kill Bill|Deadly Viper Assassination Squad]].
* [[The
▲* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: The Vile Offspring became so technologically and neurologically divergent to humanity that the humans had to flee the solar system to avoid being being used as Matrioshka Brain feedstock -- along with the planets of said system.
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