Freely available Singularity fiction novels
There are several great fictional post-Singularity or Singularity related fiction stories available online. Following is a list of some of my favorites. Post in the comments if you know of any other similar stories available online!
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
The Rise of Sex Robots and Pleasure Machines
HOLLYWOOD was right, robots are going to take over the world. But we might as well lie back and think of the invasion because it's going to be pleasurable, says a leading robot scientist.
The Next Big Thing in Entertainment, A Half-Time Update
From (let's face it) a much better Singularity-related blog, a preview of radical advances in entertainment in the near future.
This is kind of impressive, although knowing Microsoft is behind this I wouldn't be surprised if Milo hangs himself.
And, I see we are still climbing out of the Uncanny Valley:
Steampunk and a backlash against “shiny tomorrows that seem unreachable”
Maybe this fantasy has become more attractive because we want to be more choosy about which technologies we use to change the future. Or maybe we're just sick of shiny tomorrows that seem unreachable. Either way, science fiction is taking refuge in the past for a while.
Full article here.
Science Fiction writer Robert Charles Wilson expresses doubts about the singularity
RCW: I didn't have the singularity in mind when I was writing Julian Comstock, though I'll confess I don't believe in it. Extrapolating curves to the asymptotic just doesn't seem realistic. I think it was Damon Knight who characterized this kind of extrapolation back in the 1960s: if commemorative postage stamps continue to grow larger at their current rate, they'll cover entire continents by the year 2000.
That doesn't mean science fiction writers shouldn't write about the singularity. Futurists toss out these possibilities; we play with them. And in the course of play the premises are explored, challenged, expanded, sometimes exploded. I've written stories set in prosperous, post-scarcity futures. That doesn't seem too likely at the moment; but the future is intrinsically unpredictable; that's why it's fascinating. We would impoverish the genre if we limited ourselves to mere likelihoods.
Full interview here.
Transcendent Man (Starring Ray Kurzweil)
Hello, and welcome to singularity.org ("Asymptote Now"). This is the first post, a movie trailer for Transcendent Man: