blindsight (peter watts)

i don’t know how i ran across this. likely on some recommended reading list that i’ve long forgotten about. an entertaining read, i’m pretty sure that i’ll forget all about the plot of this book within the next week. 2 notable plot elements here.

  • there’s a vampire in the mix. this is apparently set in some world where vampires co-evolved with humans. ok, that’s a fun twist. there’s an amusing “academic presentation” on some of the backstory here within the accompanying web site. the accompanying web site is a novel bit that i wish more books had.

    (oh, btw, as of this writing, cert expiration problems seem to abount with the rifters.com site.)

  • humans seem to have mastered some form of hibernation and we’ve seen the establishment of a singularity, aka, heaven. that seems like it could have been a much more interesting and fleshed out digression.

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