Echopraxia

This book might be part of the Firefall series.
(1 review)

A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings and ghosts, where defunct biologist Daniel Bruks becomes trapped on a spaceship destined to make an evolutionary-changing discovery.

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2014 by Tor Books.

Show more
ISBN:
978-0-7653-2802-1
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
858730761
ASIN:
076532802X

View on OpenLibrary

Subjects
  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Vampires
  • Aliens

Reviews

reviewed Echopraxia by Peter Watts (Firefall, #2)

If you like ideas more than… writing… this may be for you!

I continued on to this after reading Blindsight, because even though I didn't love it I had some enduring questions. An error on my part. There were more deliberate ambiguities than plot points in this book.

I won't provide a plot précis. This has some compelling concepts and big ideas, but was frankly a mess. Characters' motivations remain inexplicable even at the end of the book.

Amusingly this AMA with the author seems to boil down to "you're reading it wrong". Authors, please get over yourselves.