![]() His ideas are often wild and especially the first two thirds of the novel are among the best the genre has to offer – if you don’t expect your reading to spoon feed you that is. Watts wrote a page turner about first contact. While it is not without problems, I enjoyed reading it a lot. Turns out I liked that a lot, so I decided to take on Blindsight. I did give The Freeze-Frame Revolution a shot though, a 2018 novella by Watts – review here. I also got the impression Watts likes to show off all the scientific papers he’s read, adding to an overall braggy vibe that didn’t appeal to me. ![]() I’ve known about the book for years, but I was put off by the fact that it features a vampire – supposedly they did exist, as a kind of side branch of human evolution, and were resurrected using gene technology. Blindsight is a contemporary classic of Hard SF. ![]()
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