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| | Glad you liked Peter Watts' STARFISH. Be sure to check out his Hugo finalist, BLINDSIGHT. He leaves his usual underwater environs and ventures into space.
Downbeat and enthralling. ... Got bogged down in a love story and explanations for tunnel construction which were not interesting. 3/5.
Starfish, Peter Watts - people working on a geothermal power station at the bottom of the sea. Exciting, with a plethora of widely varying and interesting ideas. Will definitely look ... ... out on all the interesting questions he could have asked, given his set-up.
I've not read Peter Watts, but his Blindsight was shortlisted for last year's Hugo. Um, so was Glasshouse...
I think I read a Tony Daniel novel many years ago. Warpath, I think. It's probably abut ... ... I'll add:
Farthing, Jo Walton
Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon
Alanya to Alanya, L. Timmel Duchamp
Blindsight, Peter Watts (a Canadian, I believe)
... useful to just about any working writer these days, and it dawns on me now that Peter Watts certainly has that quality in Blindsight. A tough call:
1. Storm Front (I only just discovered Butcher).
2. Jennifer Morgue (A total hoot).
3. Blindsight (As disquieting a book as I've read in some time).
4. The Wizard Hunters (A great start to a great trilogy).
5. Orphans of Chaos (ditto).
Honorable ... Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
Thirteen by Richard Morgan.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
And one to argue over whether or not it's SF.
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg. I say it's near future. In approximate order of my enthusiasm:
1. Blindsight, Peter Watts
2. In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
3. Halting State, Charles Stross; his best since Accelerando.
4. Brasyl, Iain MacDonald
5. Dark Universe, Daniel F. Galouye; from 1961. Terrific for its day, ... Finished up Blindsight the other day (A). The truth will set you free, not necessarily make you happy, as Watts delves into the "cold equations" of evolutionary fitness. 63. Blindsight by Robin Cook
  ![]() I'm reading Blindsight and The Stories of Mary Gordon. I'm enjoying both. I have Effigy by Allisa York up next. Has anyone else read any of the books off of Giller short list? I'd love to read one or two before they are announced in November.
(also, Effigy is listed in my Library - ... I have Nova Swing and Spaceman Blues on my shelf ready to be read, but right now I'm reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. I'm only about 80 pages in, but I'm enjoying what I've read so far. It's my first Watts, and now I'm curious about his other works. ... and so far I'm finding it to be a very well written and fascinating book. But as of this point I'm leaning towards Blindsight, it's just one of those books that has lingered in my mind long after I finished with it, and seems even more interesting now that I had the chance to hear Peter ... ... pretty damn good. Off to find HMD because it's the only one I haven't read.
Right now it's a toss-up for me between Blindsight and Eifelheimthough I don't have a vote. ... here. I won't call it fluff, it's more than that, but it doesn't have the kind of meat I look for in Hugo winners.
- Blindsight: wow! dark, smoky, spicy, horrific. Amazing novel about evolution and the nature of consciousness. This book is bone chillingly frightening. I wrote a full ... ... by Michael Flynn in an attempt to read through everything up for the best novel hugo this year (so far I'm still hoping for Blindsight).
I'm also going through the first volume of Jack Kirby's Fourth World for a bit of over the top escapism. ... fiction. I gave his early novels a miss, as there is simply too much to read for anyone to read everything. I read Blindsight - and I read his blog - only because the SF fans (...whose opinions you scorn...) recommended the book to me when they nominated it for a Hugo. I don't recall ... For the folks out there who have read Blindsight, could you help me understand the ending? I'm unclear what happened on the ship after Sarasti went after Siri, and if there was a revolt. (I'm pretty sure I understand what happened on Earth--the vampires encouraged people to go to Heaven in ... ... say to check out this year's hugo nominees for best novel. Glasshouse, Eifelheim, Rainbow's End, and especially Blindsight are well worth reading (I have not read the fifth nominee yet). Blindsight, in the first contact category.
Nothing human at all about these aliens. Looking at the recommendations on the Blindsight page is interesting
1. Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
2. Maelstrom by Peter Watts
3. Spin Control by Chris Moriarty
4. Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
5. Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds
6. Eifelheim by Michael Fl ... Blindsight is definitely better than good. Dukedom is reading Blindsight now and really enjoying it. Besides the laughing out loud (one liners in the beginning apparently), He keeps reading passages to me. He says it is better than Stross...and he is a BIG Stross fan...so that's quite a compliment.
... today, and the Novik is the ONLY one of the five Hugo-nominees still on the shelves.
I'm now hearing great things about Blindsight, so it's on my list of Books To track Down. Odd that it's going to take some effort to track down. ... Dragon aka Temeraire by Naomi Novik, Glasshouse by Charles Stross, Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Edited to correct touchstones. Peter Watts, the marine biologist, has written numerous, much-acclaimed novels, including the new Blindsight, which I think someone told me is available for free from his website?
James Alan Gardner has written quite a few novels also, Expendable and Vigilant come to mind.
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