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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765328038
ISBN-139780765328038
eBay Product ID (ePID)204138980
Product Key Features
Book TitleEchopraxia
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Alien Contact, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorPeter Watts
Book SeriesFirefall Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA paranoid tale that would make Philip K. Dick proud, told in a literary style that should seduce readers who don't typically enjoy science fiction., " Echopraxia is a depleted uranium shot across the bows of complacent, by-the-numbers SF, and a bright rallying cry for the soul of the genre." -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon "An intricately inventive and coolly deterministic lesson in the futility of trying to outthink evolution, less a critique of human transcendence than an indictment of its basic assumptions." - Publishers Weekly, "A paranoid tale that would make Philip K. Dick proud, told in a literary style that should seduce readers who don't typically enjoy science fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisPrepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.
