Monday, August 18, 2014

Accelerando

The nude woman turns toward him.  She's the spitting image of Amber's mother, except for the chelipeds she has in place of hands.  She hisses, "Equity!" and takes a wobbly step toward him, pincers clacking.

-- Charles Stross, in his science fiction novel Accelerando (2005) about the impending technological singularity

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When I read this paragraph in Accelerando, I stopped to wonder whether that was the weirdest paragraph ever that still fit within the story line.

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