Comments on: Down and Out with the Macxs http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/28/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Accelerating Future » Accelerando http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/28/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-58079 Accelerating Future » Accelerando Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:13:33 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/17/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-58079 [...] Transhumanist and Creative Commons CTO Mike Linksvayer has written something you don’t see too often - a negative review of Charles Stross’s Accelerando. In the comments, he muses, “one person’s dense content is another person’s thicket of cliches”, well put. Here is the review: I expected to enjoy Accelerando by Charles Stross and have a really hard time finishing Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. The former includes cool stuff like mind uploading, space colonization, and singularity. The latter is set in an incredibly challenging environment (in terms of holding my interest)–a theme park. I experienced the reverse. [...] [...] Transhumanist and Creative Commons CTO Mike Linksvayer has written something you don’t see too often – a negative review of Charles Stross’s Accelerando. In the comments, he muses, “one person’s dense content is another person’s thicket of cliches”, well put. Here is the review: I expected to enjoy Accelerando by Charles Stross and have a really hard time finishing Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. The former includes cool stuff like mind uploading, space colonization, and singularity. The latter is set in an incredibly challenging environment (in terms of holding my interest)–a theme park. I experienced the reverse. [...]

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/28/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-3647 Mike Linksvayer Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:18:25 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/17/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-3647 One's dense content is another's thicket of cliches, I guess. I'm pretty humorless, but I think any jokes told about corporations reached fruition in the first third of the book. One’s dense content is another’s thicket of cliches, I guess.

I’m pretty humorless, but I think any jokes told about corporations reached fruition in the first third of the book.

]]> By: Dev Purkayastha http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/28/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-3646 Dev Purkayastha Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:52:49 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/12/17/down-and-out-with-the-macxs/#comment-3646 I really liked Accelerando myself, but I think was really wowed by the incredibly dense content (he didn't even slow down to define "clade"!). Perhaps the fiction itself wasn't the best ever? But it was nonetheless captivating enough that I read through the singularity in one sitting. One can also interpret Accelerando as a very broad, slowly-told cosmic joke about corporations. Y'know? (I don't want to ruin it for others.) I really liked Accelerando myself, but I think was really wowed by the incredibly dense content (he didn’t even slow down to define “clade”!). Perhaps the fiction itself wasn’t the best ever? But it was nonetheless captivating enough that I read through the singularity in one sitting.

One can also interpret Accelerando as a very broad, slowly-told cosmic joke about corporations. Y’know? (I don’t want to ruin it for others.)

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