Fortunately, neither really ended up being an obstacle. First, the fact that I haven’t read Blindsight which is the first book in the Firefall series, and second, there was the worry that the book would be too “hard sci-fi” for my tastes. I thought I would be going into Echopraxia with two strikes against me. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the ma. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system.

But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.ĭaniel 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. 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. Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight

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