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Echopraxia

by Peter Watts
Adam J. Rough
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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 it's all under surveillance by an alien presence. Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational. He's turned his back on humanity, but awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. He's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. 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.

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  • Release date

    August 26, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666590517
      • File size: 364275 KB
      • Duration: 12:38:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This long-awaited sci-fi follows Watts's Hugo-nominated BLINDSIGHT. The plot is complex, yet narrator Adam J. Rough is able to maintain a moderately steady and meticulous narration. He's highly skilled at differentiating characters with vocal nuances. There's no confusion, for example, between Valerie the engineered vampire and the garrulous Sengupta. Most enjoyable is the agitated biologist Daniel BrŸks, who is thrown into the middle of a species war that leads him on a journey he didn't ask for. Rough captures his frustration to a tee. As narrator, he's constantly moving with the text, playing with language that shapes this volatile world of androids, aliens, zombies, and posthumans. T.E.C. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 2, 2014
      Hugo-winner Watts attempts “faith-based hard SF” in this dense, fast-moving companion to 2006’s Blindsight set in a late-21st-century world of genetically resurrected vampires, weaponized zombies, and Nobel-winning monastic hive minds. Daniel Brüks, obsolete in every way—human in a posthuman world, a field biologist despite biology’s merger with technology, an atheist despite religion’s recent triumphs over science—is dragged onto a Rapture-guided ship, the Crown of Thorns, and taken on a mission to investigate possible transmissions from the lost spaceship Theseus. Brüks is soon trapped between a vampire and a physics-breaking “postbiological” organism. Watts displays his knack for meticulously researched, conventionally unsympathetic characters, and their complex manipulations give color to an environment in which it is difficult to distinguish bloody catastrophe from “plans within plans.” The novel delivers 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. Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

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