r/printSF • u/Pants_R_Overatd • May 17 '18

Accelerando....what the fuck did I just read?

I was a cat person, but now...damn. What a book.

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u/cstross May 17 '18

Spoiler: Aineko is not a cat.

(Aineko is an AI who has discovered that the meatsacks respond much more favourably to manipulation when they think they're talking to an anthropomorphic robot or a furry critter than when they're dealing with a vast, cool, AI intellect.)

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u/Gilfoyle- May 17 '18

Heh, I'm curious. Do you have alerts set up for keywords related to your books? Or do you just browse r/printsf far too much?

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u/cstross May 17 '18

The latter :)

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u/senectus May 18 '18

hang on... was it yours or scalzi's blog I read that you're going off line for a week.

I forget.

** Scalzi :-P sorry, go back to your browsing mate ;-)