Echopraxia

#2 Blindsight

Peter Watts

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Tor U.K.
16 June 2015

Science fiction; First Contact

Series: Blindsight

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight.

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.

By: Peter Watts
Imprint: Tor U.K.
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780765328038
ISBN 10: 0765328038
Series: Blindsight
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 16 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PETER WATTS is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Blindsight and has been called a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive by The Globe and Mail and whose work the New York Times called seriously paranoid.

Reviews for Echopraxia (#2 Blindsight)

A paranoid tale that would make Philip K. Dick proud, told in a literary style that should seduce readers who don't typically enjoy science fiction. <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>

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Echopraxia

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