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Copyright © Charles Stross, 2005.; License: Creative Commons License, Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.0: * Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor; * Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes; * No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work; * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. (* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.) ‹http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/› These SiSU presentations of Accelerando are done with the kind permission of the author Charles Stross SiSU www.accelerando.org ii
Contents Contents Accelerando, Charles Stross 1 Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Publication History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PART 1: Slow Takeoff 5 Chapter 1: Lobsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 2: Troubadour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Chapter 3: Tourist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 PART 2: Point of Inflexion 130 Chapter 4: Halo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter 5: Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Chapter 6: Nightfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 PART 3: Singularity 296 Chapter 7: Curator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Chapter 8: Elector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Chapter 9: Survivor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Metadata 475 SiSU Metadata, document information . . . . . . . . . . . 475 SiSU www.accelerando.org iii
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Accelerando painted all the synthet
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Accelerando CIA does not understand
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Accelerando any transaction that do
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Accelerando isn't certain he's stil
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Accelerando she pours them each a t
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Accelerando them points a small and
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Accelerando mobile executive in the
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Accelerando delegated rather than p
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Accelerando of things in court and
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to Moscow? To SLORC? To -” Accele
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Accelerando - agrees that he is one
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Accelerando looks at the ancient, l
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Accelerando ing people happy until
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Accelerando enslaved to make him bu
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Accelerando he comments, sitting do
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Accelerando of a lost commission is
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Accelerando He takes another mouthf
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Accelerando not the point. The poin
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Accelerando shakes his head again,
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Accelerando dour Presbyterian sheri
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Accelerando is he not answering his
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Accelerando thing to a home he's ha
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Accelerando bowels of NHSNet - but
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Accelerando Aineko turns its head a
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Accelerando offer you a deal you ca
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Accelerando “What do ye want?”
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Accelerando mune systems, brain imp
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Accelerando useless, and painfully
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Accelerando The door behind the sof
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Accelerando canyon. Well, okay. “
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Accelerando a second, scary-jittery
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Accelerando burnout, right? We need
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Accelerando no? So what does he thi
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Accelerando voice. “You can live
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Accelerando The woman who is also B
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Accelerando of how we value identit
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Accelerando other signal, well, tha
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Accelerando “Come in.” A soleno
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Accelerando The cat lashes its tail
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Accelerando PART 2: Point of Inflex
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Accelerando costume locker, snoring
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Accelerando age ship Ernst Sanger,
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Accelerando suit, turns to the text
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Accelerando Amber pouts. “It's no
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Accelerando has already figured out
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Accelerando and instructs one of hi
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Accelerando the international tarif
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Accelerando screen. “It's going t
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Accelerando downhill since Mom deci
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Accelerando of self-modifying corpo
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Accelerando about earlier, but they
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Accelerando ready freed up, because
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Accelerando is a woman called Monic
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Accelerando sell myself into slaver
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Accelerando “Well.” Amber rolls
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Accelerando is crunchy with tar. Am
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Accelerando “She's trying to use
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you care for.” Accelerando “Sam
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flationary time. Accelerando The Ba
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Accelerando “Of course I -” She
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Accelerando sounds like admiration
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Accelerando pole of the snowflake,
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Accelerando “Justice cannot be so
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Accelerando “What! From the alien
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Accelerando The first man runs a ha
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Accelerando kick sand over you.”
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Accelerando on the components found
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Accelerando think I'm going to link
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Accelerando lead to widespread rati
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Accelerando this level of the ship'
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Accelerando suspension lines and av
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Accelerando like hell that nobody t
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Accelerando sorry, and I'll try to
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Accelerando the cap fits.” Amber
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Accelerando Sadeq freezes in place.
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Accelerando to be you,” she says
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Accelerando shape in the sterile oc
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Accelerando of the Franklin borg's
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Accelerando copy of someone in a vi
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Accelerando thereafter to predictio
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Accelerando “Ah, this is all a bi
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Accelerando thrust during free inte
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Accelerando vetted it thoroughly,
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Accelerando “A trade delegation,
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Accelerando precedents. Best way to
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Accelerando The lobsters are as lar
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Accelerando dais. “I'm not sure.
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Accelerando “By all means.” Amb
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Accelerando nonstellar mass of the
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Accelerando “A grammatical weapon
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Accelerando she wonders if this is
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Accelerando to focus his trading ca
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Accelerando gems of wisdom to pass
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Accelerando locked inside. “They
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Accelerando over him, maxillipeds a
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Accelerando Pierre pulls the sword
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Accelerando * * * 1457 Welcome to t
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Accelerando last conversation with
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Accelerando * * * 1485 At the far e
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Accelerando Amber rubs her eyes tir
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Accelerando This is, he knows, a fa
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Accelerando one key indicator of a
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Accelerando “Demilitarized?” Am
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Accelerando her company, she's deci
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Accelerando distant policeman looki
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Accelerando The implications of her
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Accelerando “Risk may attach to t
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Accelerando “Listen, come on.”
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Accelerando O'Neil cylinder sprouts
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Accelerando although for very diffe
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Accelerando “Ah.” Sadeq nods th
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Accelerando “What are you talking
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Accelerando “Welcome back,” Pie
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Accelerando * * * 1664 Pierre, Donn
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Accelerando the physics model of th
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Accelerando the purchasing fools to
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Accelerando he says slowly. “You
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Accelerando “From a gate?” For
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Accelerando smile: “Probably a go
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Accelerando by its presumption at m
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Accelerando hypersphere. It bubbles
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Accelerando life was to be a steppi
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Accelerando PART 3: Singularity 180
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Accelerando nanomachines suspended
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Accelerando twenty objective days o
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Accelerando Avogadro's number of bi
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Accelerando okay. If it hadn't been
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Accelerando Pamela snorts. “When
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Accelerando “If you will excuse m
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Accelerando with something in his m
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Accelerando Circus several times ov
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Accelerando Sirhan. “You learn wh
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Accelerando old out of a desire for
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Accelerando thought strikes him.
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Accelerando gers are being edited i
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Accelerando shatter, and she's coug
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Accelerando strange child: He takes
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ten. Accelerando “Yes. She is an
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Accelerando “Your - wait!” Ambe
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Accelerando The phase change accele
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Accelerando says the serious-faced
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Accelerando technically a different
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Accelerando But that isn't going to
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Accelerando marvels to make a boy's
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Accelerando ber, suddenly feeling v
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Accelerando and unable to operate e
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Accelerando a new level of metacomp
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Accelerando expecting visitors?”
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Accelerando work too well under a c
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Accelerando “They're not human,
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Accelerando other curators on board
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Accelerando the hillside and nearly
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Accelerando “Show me what Mom's u
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Accelerando grins wickedly. “Comm
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Accelerando The feed goes dead. 225
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Accelerando Chapter 8: Elector 2266
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Accelerando Amber pulls a face, an
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Accelerando The head coutureborg fr
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Accelerando above his head: In his
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Accelerando to wear, too.” Sirhan
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Accelerando interest in their human
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Accelerando Many activities that ha
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Accelerando The city is an agoric-a
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Accelerando tempt of an antiquarian
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Accelerando wouldn't miss being a f
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Accelerando there must be thirty pe
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Accelerando some sort of side inter
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Accelerando is this?” he splutter
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Accelerando into the same rat trap
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Accelerando said everything that ne
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at him. “It is a question.” Acc
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Accelerando “It was meant to be a
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Accelerando “We need you to stay
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Accelerando of the human species, a
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Accelerando Saturn - then moving ou
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Accelerando help with the program,
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Accelerando to introduce you to Sir
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Accelerando have on the order of a
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Accelerando of emigration rates fro
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Accelerando of a son ...) “We sti
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Accelerando with someone who unders
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Accelerando “Ah.” Sirhan stares
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Accelerando “- She set you up to
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Accelerando meme spaces hanging off
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Accelerando “Maybe this is a good
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Accelerando “Where you go, I go.
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Accelerando A skinny boy with nut b
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Accelerando and he sprouts a white
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Accelerando who are truly beyond th
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Accelerando tive poverty and the ne
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Accelerando “Uh.” Manfred takes
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Accelerando But in some respects, N
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Accelerando the threshold of a post
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Accelerando neighbor Eloise why her
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Accelerando Sirhan takes a step tow
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Accelerando “My father can go fuc
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Accelerando “I've come for the bo
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Accelerando in primate politics, Si
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Accelerando believe a different one
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Accelerando down his spine, for wit
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Accelerando clicking, and smiles ir
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Accelerando He shakes with a crazed
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Accelerando it nearly as much as Pa
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Accelerando the nearest comprehensi
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wouldn't -” Accelerando “That's
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Accelerando around them. “Where d
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Accelerando mild contempt. “But I
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Accelerando safe activity for mere
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