Singularity Sky

In a future scattered across space and time by the superhuman artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton, the New Republic enforces a restrictive, anti-technological social order. When the colony of Novy Petrograd is transformed by the Festival, an alien intelligence that grants wishes in exchange for information and culture, the New Republic dispatches a fleet to intervene. Aboard the ship, engineer Martin Springfield and diplomat Rachel Mansour become entangled in the political and military conflict, while the Eschaton observes events with its own undisclosed purposes.

by Charles Stross

Ace Books · First published 2003 · 337 pages