Reddit reviews Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)
We found 4 Reddit comments about Blindsight (Firefall Book 1). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)We found 4 Reddit comments about Blindsight (Firefall Book 1). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
His work is the most nihilistic Scifi you can find.
Not Big Lebowski nihlism but a cold dark unyielding Universe that is indifferent to any amount of suffering nihilism.
Since you haven't heard of him check out this playlist of him in a role of a scholar holding a seminar where he is reporting his findings in biology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdCvGDpM9k&list=PL30ED0756E00786E2
and then read a book by him called Blindsight found for free here on the authors website or just here if you want to throw a few bucks to the author.
He is an evolutionary biologist that started writing fiction so you can call his books ultra hard SciFi. But be warned, he's not for everyone and even if you like him he'll make all SciFi seem a bit simplistic and childish.
The best SF books I read published in 2014 were:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.
The Peripheral by William Gibson.
Echopraxia, sequel to Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Lines of Departure, sequel to Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos.
Ancillary Sword, sequel to Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
Cibola Burn, 4th in a series that starts with Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey.
A Darkling Sea by James Cambias.
Blindsight by Peter Watts
>Canadian author Watts (Starfish) explores the nature of consciousness in this stimulating hard SF novel, which combines riveting action with a fascinating alien environment. In the late 21st century, when something alien is discovered beyond the edge of the solar system, the spaceship Theseus sets out to make contact. Led by an enigmatic AI and a genetically engineered vampire, the crew includes a biologist who's more machine than human, a linguist with surgically induced multiple personality disorder, a professional soldier who's a pacifist, and Siri Keeton, a man with only half a brain. Keeton is virtually incapable of empathy, but he has a savant's ability to model and predict the actions of others without understanding them. Once the Theseus arrives at the gigantic and hideously dangerous alien artifact (which has tellingly self-named itself Rorschach), the crew must deal with beings who speak English fluently but who may, paradoxically, not even be sentient, at least as we understand the term. Watts puts a terrifying and original spin on the familiar alien contact story.
These are great recommendations. Here are some other futuristic scifi books that explore the concept of identity like Altered Carbon does.