The Singularity Comes Knocking

- Who is it?
- It's the Singularity.
- What do you want?
- Everything is different now!
- I don't want any.
- If I could just have a moment of your time?

― Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds

How?

How is it that every book I read by Charles Stross is better than the last one? Do people have no limits?!

Also, is it a bit of Douglas Adams-style misanthropic humor I'm sensing in Singularity Sky (which I've just begun to read but already love, as happened with Accelerando)?