One evening, alien machines visit the Earth and snap-shot the entire. It’s excellent on the first, second, and further readings. Blindsight belongs to the venerable science fiction genre of First Contact stories. In addition to all that, it’s a smart, fantastic read, and his best book since Starfish, one of my absolute favorites. A group of bleeding-edge augmented humans led by a resurrected vampire is sent to investigate aliens after a massive number of extraterrestrial probes arrived in a coordinated pattern encircling. (This is something that a lot of studies are actually agreeing with.) Then a long cold coast through the abyss, years of. Shed emptied her Penn tanks, bled dry her substrate mass, squandered a hundred forty days of fuel in hours. His central idea that human consciousness is like a flea riding a dog, thinking it’s in charge of everything, when really the dog, i.e., the rest of our brain, makes all of the decisions. Then shed skidded north like a startled cat and started climbing: a wild high three-gee burn off the ecliptic, thirteen hundred tonnes of momentum bucking against Newtons First. Set in 2082, Peter Watts Blindsight is fast-moving, hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to. The writing is that tight.Įchopraxia is a sequel to Blindsight, and again author Watts explores the craziness of space, aliens, vampires (he makes them work, even more believably than he did in Blindsight), and how malleable human brains are. This book is as dense as those borderline-illegal molten chocolate desserts that are as big as a teacup but somehow weigh ten pounds.ĭon’t skip a word. Peter Watts’ Blindsight looked at first contact with aliens in a different way when it was first published in 2006, and it’s been one of those books that friends have fervently recommended in. I did that with Echopraxia and missed so much that I had to read it again. I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.

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