Reddit mentions of Ventus

There's actually quite a bit of good post-singularity literature. You should check some of it out. Here's a quick list of a few of my favorites:

• Ventus by Karl Schroeder
  
• Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder
  
• Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
  
• Accelerando by Charles Stross
  
• Excession by Iain M. Banks
  
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Karl Schroeder's Ventus.

"After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.

On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created."

https://www.amazon.com/Ventus-Karl-Schroeder/dp/0812576357

If you like Dr Vinge's books - https://www.amazon.com/Ventus-Karl-Schroeder/dp/0812576357 is the book he said he wished he'd written. I enjoyed it (though not quite as much as his books.)


Also, if you've read Snow Crash, you really should make sure to read Diamond Age - It's even a sort of sequel.


You seem to like the classics, so I'd throw out basically ANYTHING by Hal Clement as well. No one can take a physics lessen and make a book out of it like he could.