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coalescentIn most books, you'd have a sense of the world by this point. You might not know all the rules, but you'd have a general idea. But then, most books aren't trying to provide the sort of historical perspective that Accelerando is. In this book, the rules keep changing, and you have to learn again.
Meet Amber, Manfred's daughter by his estranged wife Pamela. At this point, shortly into decade three, she's a teenager; and she lives, with a bunch of other postindustrialists, on the orphanage ship Ernst Sanger, en route to Jovian orbit. Things are changing faster now. Halo is the story of how Amber escaped her mother's custody, and how she maintains her independence.
So it's about separating the new from the old. Amber is native to this future in a way that even Manfred wasn't - she grew up with the sort of metacortex he developed over time. And so, asserting independence from her parents goes with asserting independence from their systems; adapting or discarding them as she needs, to make the world her own. This is Amber's coming of age.
Meet Amber, Manfred's daughter by his estranged wife Pamela. At this point, shortly into decade three, she's a teenager; and she lives, with a bunch of other postindustrialists, on the orphanage ship Ernst Sanger, en route to Jovian orbit. Things are changing faster now. Halo is the story of how Amber escaped her mother's custody, and how she maintains her independence.
So it's about separating the new from the old. Amber is native to this future in a way that even Manfred wasn't - she grew up with the sort of metacortex he developed over time. And so, asserting independence from her parents goes with asserting independence from their systems; adapting or discarding them as she needs, to make the world her own. This is Amber's coming of age.
