[xaritas]

It is definitely thought-provoking on the subject of computation and human culture; it's also really enjoyable. It's available for free under a Creative Commons license:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

I agree that the structure and pacing is odd if taken as a single corpus (which is hard not to do in its book form!) I wasn't surprised to learn after reading it that it was published serially over the course of three years. I suspect that the sequence was not mapped out fully.

Edit: Heh. When I refreshed I didn't see the response from the author confirming this.