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If you like hard sci-fi and haven't read Watts's novel Blindsight, I highly recommend it. It's the only sci-fi story I've read that has dozens of footnotes refe
by AngryParsley 17y ago
If you like hard sci-fi and haven't read Watts's novel Blindsight, I highly recommend it. It's the only sci-fi story I've read that has dozens of footnotes referencing real papers published in real journals. On the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness, it's aggregated diamond nanorod.
The book is CC-NC-SA licensed and available for free online: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
It's also published in real paperback form: http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/ http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/
- CWuestefeld 17y agoAgreed, it's a good book -- and maybe we can help him with his legal expenses. As you said, the hard science in it is very good. And I'd add that it's done with a lot of imagination: he covers a lot of novel ground (pun intended). I'd also recommend his book Starfish, which shows just as much imagination and almost as much hard science. However, by the second book in that trilogy (Maelstrom) there was a lot of political agenda showing through. That's not necessarily bad, but since I happen to disagree with his agenda, and I was reading it purely for pleasure, I was disinclined to finish that book or the next.