[extropy-chat] Ken MacLeod's Hard Rapture

[Damien Broderick]

Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
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By Ken MacLeod
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Tor Books
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Hardcover, June 2004
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320 pages
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ISBN: 0-765-30503-8

During a war in the 21st century between the United States and Europe, the 
war machine artificial intelligences underwent a rapid evolution, sparking 
a singularity event, the Hard Rapture, which resulted in most of humanity 
dead and/or scanned and stored by the AIs. Most of the AIs left Earth to 
continue their evolution, and the remnants of humanity that did not flee 
were left struggling to survive. [etc]

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