Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross have just signed with Tor Books to carbon monoxide gas - author a fix - up novel based on a series of short stories called Rapture of the Nerds . The writer and their editor in chief told us what to wait .
The novel was apace snapped up by Tor Books ’ Patrick Nielsen Hayden , who order io9 :
Cory and Charlie mean to pen a third novella in the sequence set about with “ Jury Service ” and “ Appeals Court , ” and THE RAPTURE OF THE NERDS will consist of all three novella , possibly with some small additional connective tissue paper if necessary .
Many distinguished SF “ novels ” have actually been stitched together from light - fabrication serieses like this ; the venerable industry terminus for such a record is “ fix - up ” , which does n’t imply anything deprecatory .
Doctorow added :
It ’s a fixup composed of Jury Service and Appeals Court , with an additional novella call ( in all likelihood ) Parole Board . The first two novella will be rewritten for continuity to make it all work as a single novel .
Charles Stross commented surrealistically :
ask if the estate of the realm of Ayn Rand had authorise this sequel , messrs . Stross and Doctorow would only say “ no comment ” .
Oh yeah ? I care this book already .
Doctorow and Stross author “ Jury Service ” and “ Appeals Court ” in the other 2000s . If you desire a taste of the folly , you could read the insertion to “ Jury Service”here , and the consummate “ Appeals Court”here . Suffice to say you could expect post - singularity craziness , particularly as consider patent . Also , according to Doctorow , “ Jury Service ” was indite keen corpse expressive style , with the generator trade 500 - 1000 word chunks back and forth , bring more with each exchange .
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