## Blindsight by Peter Watts

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
* Score: 24

* Created: 2014-01-15T09:29:11

### Post:

[Link to content](http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm)

### Comments:

> **u/tvcgrid** [+3]  (3 days later)
> 
> I also loved this book. There's just so many interesting *things* on every freaking *page*. But more than sheer idea-richness, this book has believable characters, although it isn't bent on presenting the whole story as a puzzle that can be solved. It's dark hard sci fi done very well.

> **u/BT_Uytya** [+2]  *The Laundry* (2 hours later)
> 
> I love this book, but not in a rationalist fiction way. However, this is a very good Sci-Fi and my favorite existential horror to date. 
> 
> Also, — I suspect many of us will find this amusing — this book is an apt example of a story which could not be reduced to [savanna poetry](http://lesswrong.com/lw/oq/savanna_poets/) without it losing all of it's impact.

> **u/ShardPhoenix** [+1]  (12 days later)
> 
> Loved the ideas, wasn't thrilled by the main character.

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