■Firefall #2■
【Echopraxia】ლ（´∀`ლ）
──Peter Watts──
★：3.83
12,143 ratings1,111 reviews
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight
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.
■Echopraxia — Peter Watts■
August 20, 2015
By Jake Seliger
in Books, Fiction, Reviews, SF/Fantasy
Tags: blindsight, echopraxia, peter watts
Echopraxia is among the best books I’ve read, ever, and is as weird and good as its predecessor, Blindsight. If you haven’t read Blindsight start with it.Like Blindsight, I had only some idea about what was happening
throughout the first read and less about why. Why that is is itself an interesting: The characters in many books about “smart” people—let’s take Harry Potter as an example—seem like dumb people’s ideas of what smart people are like. In Science Fiction that’s often less true, and in Echopraxia it isn’t true at all. The novel is a smart person’s idea of what intelligence beyond human comprehension but still observable might be like.
