M@ reviewed Echopraxia by Peter Watts (Firefall, #2)
A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed …
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5 stars
If you asked me to talk about genre archetypes, I would respond with the following novels:
LITERARY NOVEL: East of Eden
ROMANTIC DETECTIVE: Hound of the Baskervilles
NOIR DETECTIVE: The Big Sleep
FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY: Murder on the Orient Express
CYBERPUNK: Neuromancer
SCIENCE FICTION: The Man in the High Castle
SPACE OPERA: Look to Windward
After that list, you would say "HARD SCI-FI". I would squint at you, trying to figure out your intent. And then we'd get into an incredible argument about whether or not I could nominate Blindsight and Echopraxia as a unit. You would have to toe a hard line, and you would have to wield the Starfish trilogy on top of Founation, and Ringworld, and your Vernor Vinge...
...and I contend that you would have taken the wrong side of a brutal, brutal fight, like taking the German Army in a WWI wargame...
...and I'm not 100% sure you'd win.