Echopraxia

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Peter Watts: Echopraxia (Paperback, 2015, Tor Books)

Paperback, 384 pages

Published June 16, 2015 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-2803-8
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2 stars (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.

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

2 stars

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.