Book description
Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia.
February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere - a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Firefall as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Watts says Blindsight isn’t complete without Echopraxia, and I agree. Following the same logic as #1, I’ve put Firefall on the list, which includes both.
I must admit that at first, I was unsure about Watts because vampires in serious science fiction seemed straight-up cringe to me. But in Firefall, vampires have a purpose. They show how evolution doesn’t care about self-awareness. The book is full of truly alien minds that are scary because they work without the inner life we think makes us human.
Watts uses biology the way Egan uses mathematics, and I bow to it.
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