Getting ready to see how the first three chapters of this one go ...
Anyone else have any Singularity/TxH recommendations in fiction?
Ian Douglas's (aka william keith jnr)
Star Carrier series
The first book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence
There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.
But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundary—by total annihilation if necessary.
To the Sh'daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universe—along with those who would employ them. As their great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometer-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind's greatest conflict—and quite possibly its last
Its interesting because the Sh'daar are the left behinds, when their own collective of species went transbiological.
Great book examining the possible applications of these technologies, both from a human and ET perspective.
I love his use of the word Xenosophontologist in the story.
He uses it here too
Chapter Three
To say that Dahnak was excited would have been gross understatement. He'd been studying humans and their culture for nearly fifty revolutions of their world about their sun, now, but never,
never in his entire career as research
xenosophontologist had he had an opportunity like this one! To actually get a chance to live among the primitives, studying their ways, getting to know them on a one-to-one basis. It was the research opportunity of two lifetimes
and a download, at least!
Diplomatic Act by Peter Jurasik & William H. Keith Jr. - Chapter 3 - Baen Books