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I think next to Accelerando, by Charles Stross, the best singularity novel I've read was River of Gods, by Ian McDonald.
Don't miss also Cyberabad Days, the short-story collection set in the same universe. Most stories in there are excellent, but the novella "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" is just amazing.
If you guys like this, I suggest giving River of Gods and Cyberabad Days a read. Cyberpunk in future-day India. Incredible reads, both of them.
In the same vein, there's George Alec Effinger's trilogy centering around Marid Audran.
You know he also wrote a sequel, right?
Cyberabad Days
You should also check out his other "alternative, non-Western SciFi" novel Brasyl and The Dervish House.
After that, you can try his cyber/steampunk/magic realism mashup novels set on Mars, Desolation Road and Ares Express.
I totally loved this book. I have one of his other books, Brasyl, which seems to be trying to do the same thing except in Brazil, and I just can't get into it. It just doesn't compare to the amazing awesomeness of River Of Gods.
On the other hand he wrote another book of short stories set in India that I mentioned elsewhere here that is also really great.
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
>Cyberabad Days is a triumphant return to the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Cyberabad Days is a collection of seven stories, one Hugo nominee and one Hugo winner among them, as well as a thirthy-one thousand word original novella.