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Many of Peter Watts books and short stories - including Blindsight, and the short story set in the same universe "The Colonel" - are free to read on his website
by Freaky 4y ago
Many of Peter Watts books and short stories - including Blindsight, and the short story set in the same universe "The Colonel" - are free to read on his website: https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
There's also a non-free sequel novel - Echopraxia - together making the Firefall series.
Be sure to check out the "Vampire Domestication" multimedia presentation on that page, for some background on the "vampires" in the series.
- exhilaration 4y agoBe sure to check out the "Vampire Domestication" multimedia presentation on that page, for some background on the "vampires" in the series. Thank you, that was a fantastic read, really fills in the universe that Blindsight was set it. Here's a direct link to the PDF: https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoWow that took a couple of minutes to level set (the pdf is a talk by the author above - so Inassumed it was a real talk, and it starts with how they started DNA therapy on an autistic child, who then experienced side effects, blood fixations and ... hang on what? This does not sound ethical ... oh look the logos in the images change, "FizerPharm - for the children", FizerPharm - better living for stock holders" oh ok. I get it - it's a low cost version of Resident Evil. But boy it had me for a minute