
The Quiet Abundance of the Singularity
In the summer of 2026, a seventy-one-person clinical trial in China quietly closed the distance between “incurable” and “treatable” for a disease that has no cure.

In the summer of 2026, a seventy-one-person clinical trial in China quietly closed the distance between “incurable” and “treatable” for a disease that has no cure.

Charles Stross opens Singularity Sky with one of the great first paragraphs in science fiction. Telephones fall out of the sky onto the cobblestones of a colonial capital. Some of them are still…