places the action of Ilium in a vast and complex universe made of relatively plausible technological and scientific elements. Yet Ilium is different from
State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technologicalsingularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace"
humanity in general, and/or the novel's characters, head towards the technologicalsingularity. The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale
many technological advances depicted in the novel suggest that the world is undergoing ever-increasing change, following the technologicalsingularity, a