Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross.

Stross describes humanity's situation in Accelerando as dire: In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening.

Capitalism eats everything then the logic of competition pushes it so far that merely human entities can no longer compete; we're a fat, slow-moving, tasty resource – like the dodo.

Our narrative perspective, Aineko, is not a talking cat: it's a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they're dealing with a furry toy.

[4]As events progress in Accelerando, the planets of the Solar System are dismantled over time to form a Matrioshka brain, a vast solar-powered computational device inhabited by minds inconceivably more advanced and complex than naturally evolved intelligences such as human beings.