[extropy-chat] Benford's post-Singularity novel

[Damien Broderick]

Might be of interest: BEYOND INFINITY, by Gregory Benford (Aspect/Warner, 
March 2004). A reworking of his novella quasi-sequel to Clarke's `Against 
the Fall of Night', with the Diaspar/Alvin details morphed and the setting 
upgraded to take in branes, ekpyrotic universes, and in the remote 
background the Quickening followed by the Singularity followed by the 
emergence and transcension of the Singular.

p. 242: `Another legend. The Singular is a construction, emerging from an 
event the Ancients termed the Singularity. First the Quickening 
precipitated changes in what some humans made of themselves. The 
Singularity was one of the more successful of those leaps, and it created 
the Singular.'

`What is it?'

`It is what part of humanity became. A structure made of folded space-time 
itself. Some humans augmented themselves to beyond the 
others'--your--perception. They they, with others from far stars, made the 
fold... It was an act that transcended out space-time. Somehow those 
Ancients went beyond out infinites. They were--or are--both part of the 
Singular and its cause.'

And so on.

Damien Broderick