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We are all fake
Apr. 6th, 2009 10:52 pmI just finished Peter Watts' Blindsight. It’s a very good (and really short – in a time when 1000 pages is not unusual) novel. There are aliens and vampires and a lot of science. The novel was nominated for Hugo and is available online.
It’s hard to write aliens nowadays. When they understandable they invoke the rubber foreheads jokes. When they’re not it’s hard to make them seem real and not just gimmick. The same goes for the near singularity that has been done that it’s hard to say anything new. I must say I’m impressed with the concepts in this novel. I loved the space travel, the post-human society but most of all I loved the biology.
( Spoilers I think - I tried to be vague but may have failed )
And as an biologist and general science nerd I love the Notes and References part. I have a weakness for such things - Dune, Prince of Nothing, WoT. But it's even better when it's real (well except the vampire part, right?).
It’s hard to write aliens nowadays. When they understandable they invoke the rubber foreheads jokes. When they’re not it’s hard to make them seem real and not just gimmick. The same goes for the near singularity that has been done that it’s hard to say anything new. I must say I’m impressed with the concepts in this novel. I loved the space travel, the post-human society but most of all I loved the biology.
( Spoilers I think - I tried to be vague but may have failed )
And as an biologist and general science nerd I love the Notes and References part. I have a weakness for such things - Dune, Prince of Nothing, WoT. But it's even better when it's real (well except the vampire part, right?).
