Just finished Accelerando. Spoilers contained.
It skips over the fun parts, by which I mean what exactly is happening in the hot inner worlds trans-singularity.
Those are the fun parts exactly because it's hard to predict what will it be like to experience singularity, but maybe better to screw off to an interstellar voyage and then Saturn, than to do a bad job at the prediction.
Or, maybe Stross' point is that it will in all likelihood feel like being left behind?
The mechanism of action feels far too corporate and above board, like trying to reconcile interesting events with a Fukuyama end of history.
E.g. the mesh of lisp-machine corporate entities, the embodied alien LLC slug, fun but feels like gilt pastiche in the face of physical force law of the jungle.
Maybe the idea is that corporatism increases monotonically and will eventually dominate?
I enjoyed the early Manfred chapters the most, where things were more recognizable.
Once we'd jumped to Jupiter the relative appeal vs other sci-fi dropped off -- I think about there it changes from futurism to fantasy.