These excerpts from Charles Stross’s novel Accelerando follow the life of Manfred Macx and his descendants as they navigate a future dominated by a looming technological singularity. In a world where artificial intelligence, uploaded consciousness, and nanotechnology have rendered traditional human life obsolete, characters struggle to maintain their identity and reproducitive agency. The narrative spans generations, moving from a near-future Earth to the Jovian system and beyond, tracing the evolution of economics and metapolitics in a post-human era. Central to the plot is a complex web of legal disputes, interstellar exploration, and the influence of a sentient robotic cat named Aineko. Ultimately, the text examines how sapient beings adapt when biological boundaries dissolve and intelligence begins to consume the material resources of the solar system. It highlights the tension between ancestral legacies and the relentless march of exponential progress.