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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

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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 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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