<p dir="ltr">The Singularity is a pretty popular trope in modern, mainstream sci-fi. Charles Stross' "Accelerando" and Harrison's "Light" come to mind. I didn't particularly care for either one, I think it makes for lazy writing. Tech becomes magic, but characters aren't mystified, they are experts. It is easy to explain away problems in the narrative.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 29, 2013 1:09 PM, "Gerry Quinn" <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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From: Gwern Branwen<br>
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<a href="http://jdbookreview.com/gene-wolfe-no-comparison/" target="_blank">http://jdbookreview.com/gene-<u></u>wolfe-no-comparison/</a> interview:<br>
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'Gene Wolfe easily admits to being a supernatural being. How else to explain his famous comment that editor Damon Knight, whose ORBIT series of anthologies helped launch Wolfe’s career, “grew me from a bean…”?'<br>
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Hmm, if we are to assume it was a black bean, it would not make him the nicest kind of supernatural being! [I'm assuming that the story of the black beans cast into the sea in BotNS is meant to refer to the origin of Abaia, Erebus and the rest.]<br>
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- Gerry Quinn <br>
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