Reddit reviews Echopraxia
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http://www.amazon.com/Echopraxia-Peter-Watts/dp/076532802X
Currently reading, and would like to finish:
Started in 2014, put down, would like to finish in 2015:
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Try Peter Watts' Blindsight. It's fairly short but an excellent read. Also the next book in the series Echopraxia just came out in october.
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640
http://www.amazon.com/Echopraxia-Peter-Watts/dp/076532802X
Did someone just read Peter Watt's latest book?
Estou lendo o Echopraxia, a "sidequel" do Blindsight, a ficção científica mais depressiva de todos os tempos.
That was quick! ;)
Yeah, it was a great mix of action, hard sci-fi and alienness. I'm a biologist and really appreciated it. You don't really get much hard sci-fi that is "hard" with respect to biology.
Well, the author just released a sequel: amazon link
I'll rack my brains on some alternatives...
[Edit] Whenever I think of AIs I can't get past Banks' Excession. Not particularly realistic but it might be my favourite sci-fi book ever.
OP, also grab Beyond the Rift which is a convenient collection of Watts' short stories. It includes The Island, which, in my opinion, is one of his best.
And when you're done with all those, you can join those of us waiting in heavy anticipation for Echopraxia.
It's tightly written, has a unique dynamic tension between the characters and the aliens are truly alien. It's unlike any other science fiction book that I've read.
But don't take my word for it, you can read it here online before the sequel comes out next month.
I would highly recommend a book I'm currently reading, Echopraxia
Even though it's 2nd in a series to another (equally great) book of Peter Watts' called BlindSight
some of the best Hard Science Fiction in recent decades, IMHO..
and it goes into precisely those speculations that stimulated your post.
If you like SciFi, do yourself a favor and pick it up right now..
If you're not that into SciFi, this might just get you into it more.
Yup. Watts provides a little something to tide us over.
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
The long-awaited sequel to "Blindsight". Amazon says:
> It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it’s all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.
> Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he’s turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out.
> Now he’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn’t yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids.”
> Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.