Binding: Paperback
Description: Prepare 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.
Title: Echopraxia
Author(s): Watts Peter
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780765328038
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/16/2015
Series: Firefall
Category: Science Fiction