5/11/2023 0 Comments Echopraxia books![]() ![]() ![]() Blindsight was innovative, expeditious, and chillingly fulfilling Echopraxia is desultory, slow, and largely unrewarding. This second installment in the Firefall series is impossible to assess without comparing it to its stunning and disturbing predecessor. In Echopraxia’s “Notes and References,” Peter Watts admits that this book might be a literary “faceplant.” I’m inclined to agree. Still hoping Watts will get around to continuing this series at some point… Original Review from 2015: I think I understood it better, both because I’m more familiar with some of the ideas Watts was working with, and also because I’m less allergic to the notion that “religious-esque” phenomena may arise from tinkering with human consciousness. It’s smarter, more coherent, and more interesting than I remember. I enjoyed this book much more the second time around compared to my first reading. ![]()
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