Echopraxia

383 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-7653-2802-1
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OCLC Number:
858730761

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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.

Subjects

  • Interstellar travel
  • Biologists
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Fiction