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Fiction. Blindsight, Peter Watts Terrifying on an existential level. It's sort of a more hard sci fi version of Rendezvous With Rama, with a precise focus on the mechanics of consciousness itself and the amount of garbage in our brains we assume we have control over. It takes a rather dim view of the utility of the self. This book hosed me up for months, possibly permanently. Watts is very impressed with some of his own creations and it drags the book down a bit -- I'm not a huge fan of the vampires but they at least serve a good purpose in the story. Just finished the sequel a week ago and I didn't think it was nearly as good, but I recommend Blindsight to people just because the territory it covers is so interesting and relatively unexplored. Oh, and here's the whole thing on the author's website. Creative commons licence. NmareBfly fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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