[extropy-chat] Ken MacLeod's Hard Rapture

[David]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
> *
> By Ken MacLeod
> *
> Tor Books
> *
> Hardcover, June 2004
> *
> 320 pages
> *
> 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]
>
> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue370/books.html
>
I don?t know whether the book is any good,
but that link leads to a shit-house reviewer.

- ?Here?s a summary of what happened, because
I don?t know how to review without spoilers.?