Charles Stross’ Accelerando - I want to read it, but found out it’s the third in a series. Do I have to read the first two first? : r/printSF
Could just be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but I keep on seeing this book mentioned, looked into it, and saw that it's the third in his Singularity series which is supposed to be pretty rocky. Worth going though the first two, or is the third one stand-alone enough? Wait, Accelerando is definitely not a part of Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise. And even if it somehow were, it still would have been the first in the series, as Accelerando starts off in the near future and both of the Singularity novels are in the far future. Accelerando is not a novel - it is a collection of short stories linked together. Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise are a series. They were meant to be followed by a third novel, but it was cancelled. Huh. Amazon lumps them together. A lot of stuff in Amazon's database is junk. They never delete or correct any crap that finds its way in there. If you go by Wikipedia, "Accelerando" is a stand-alone novel and "Singularity Sky" and "Iron Sunrise" are part of the Eschat