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purplecthulhu at 06:34pm on 10/04/2007
purplecthulhu at 06:34pm on 10/04/2007Books Read Update
Sailing Bright Eternity Greg Benford
Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter
Gateway Fred Pohl
The Clan Corporate Charles Stross
Immortality Inc. Robert Sheckly
Darkland Liz Williams
Starfish Peter Watts
Maelstrom Peter Watts
The Oregon Experiment
Missle Gap Charles Stross
Blindsight Peter Watts
Wow, what a book. Once or twice a decade a book comes along which totally rewires some piece of the genre landscape. Blindsight does that for first contact on many different levels. If this doesn't win the hugo I'll be very surprised.
Interestingly some people have said this is a depressing book. I don't feel that way. I'd say its a realist book. The universe is very likely to be odder and nastier than we think. Watts says this most eloquently with this book.
Sailing Bright Eternity Greg Benford
Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter
Gateway Fred Pohl
The Clan Corporate Charles Stross
Immortality Inc. Robert Sheckly
Darkland Liz Williams
Starfish Peter Watts
Maelstrom Peter Watts
The Oregon Experiment
Missle Gap Charles Stross
Blindsight Peter Watts
Wow, what a book. Once or twice a decade a book comes along which totally rewires some piece of the genre landscape. Blindsight does that for first contact on many different levels. If this doesn't win the hugo I'll be very surprised.
Interestingly some people have said this is a depressing book. I don't feel that way. I'd say its a realist book. The universe is very likely to be odder and nastier than we think. Watts says this most eloquently with this book.
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I also didn't find it depressing. Nerve wracking and mind bending and scary as hell, yes, but not depressing. And probably the book about which the phrase "changed the way I look at the world" was a literal truth.
Sadly, I don't expect it to win a Hugo. I hope it does, but I don't expect it. It's a very challenging book.
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I'm told by someone much closer to the Hugos than myself that they expect Watts to win. I really hope he does, but Hugos have a way of going to the populist choice rather than something more cerebral. Still, with this year's worldcon being in Japan, things may play out very differently.