The Rapture of the Nerds Audiobook (Free)

Welcome to the fracturedfuture, on the dusk from the twenty-first century.

Earth includes a populace ofroughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they may be happy with their great deal.Those who find themselves unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker cladesthat fog the inner solar system having a dust of molecular equipment so thick itobscures sunlight.

The splinterymetaconsciousness of the solar system has mainly sworn off its pre-post-humancousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander … and about The Rapture of the Nerds when that occurs, itcasually spams Earth’s systems with plans for cataclysmically disruptivetechnologies that emulsify whole industries, ethnicities, and religious systems. Asane types would disregard these get-evolved-quick strategies, but there’s alwayssomeone who’ll take a bite in the forbidden apple.

So until the overmindsbore of stirring Earth’s anthill, there’s Tech Jury Service: random human beings,selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing a large number of fresh inventions andruling in whether to permit them loose. Teen Huw, a technophobic, misanthropicWelshman, continues to be selected for the most recent jury, a task he will his best toperform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy from the proletariat, and acouple of really awful moments on bathroom floors.

The Rapture from the Nerds is an excellent collaboration by Cory Doctorow andCharles Stross, two from the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk sciencefiction.