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Don't forget the short story The Colonel which could be considered a prequel to Echopraxia. http://www.tor.com/2014/07/29/the-colonel-peter-watts http://www.tor

Don't forget the short story The Colonel which could be considered a prequel to Echopraxia. http://www.tor.com/2014/07/29/the-colonel-peter-watts http://www.tor.com/2014/07/29/the-colonel-peter-watts The things unoffical sidequel to The Thing is also very good. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ He publishes lots (all?) of his books for free using the Creative Commons licence. I pirate most of my shit tbh but after reading two of his trilogies and finding them some of the best books I have read I had to donate: https://rifters.com/real/donation.htm https://rifters.com/real/donation.htm PD: Minion in the donate page kinda looks like a Petter Watts vampire but im sure he was a bless to have around.

atombender 3y ago
The Things is such a brilliant re-imagining of John Carpenter's The Thing. I remember reading it a long time ago before becoming familiar with his work, then re-discovering it after reading Blindsight, and of course it makes perfect sense for him to write this story. I have not read the Rifter series, is it as good as his other books?
- lproven 3y ago
  TBH I gave up on book 1 of the Rifters. :-( Loved Blindsight, loved the Things, but DNF B-Max.
- duskwuff 3y ago
  The Rifters trilogy (quadrilogy?) is kind of rough. They were his first published novels, and there's a kind of awkward gear-shift between the previously published material (much of the first novel was a fixup of "A Niche" and other short stories) to newly written content. There's some interesting stuff in there -- if you've previously read the Firefall novels you'll recognize some early versions of ideas and motifs which he develops more fully in the later series -- but ultimately I'd describe it as skippable.
- digging 3y ago
  I think Starfish is really, really good, but it also has some serious rough patches. I think the sequel is not great, but it has some excellent highlights. I did not read the 3rd book and probably won't. The thing for me is that I absolutely loved reading a book set at the bottom of the ocean in crushing darkness. I'd give Starfish a try unless that sounds horrible to you. While it doesn't get fully resolved, I think it actually comes to a pretty neat ending on its own that gives you room to keep thinking about it (and really, that's true of lots of great literature).

atombender 3y ago

The Things is such a brilliant re-imagining of John Carpenter's The Thing. I remember reading it a long time ago before becoming familiar with his work, then re-discovering it after reading Blindsight, and of course it makes perfect sense for him to write this story. I have not read the Rifter series, is it as good as his other books?

lproven 3y ago
TBH I gave up on book 1 of the Rifters. :-( Loved Blindsight, loved the Things, but DNF B-Max.
duskwuff 3y ago
The Rifters trilogy (quadrilogy?) is kind of rough. They were his first published novels, and there's a kind of awkward gear-shift between the previously published material (much of the first novel was a fixup of "A Niche" and other short stories) to newly written content. There's some interesting stuff in there -- if you've previously read the Firefall novels you'll recognize some early versions of ideas and motifs which he develops more fully in the later series -- but ultimately I'd describe it as skippable.
digging 3y ago
I think Starfish is really, really good, but it also has some serious rough patches. I think the sequel is not great, but it has some excellent highlights. I did not read the 3rd book and probably won't. The thing for me is that I absolutely loved reading a book set at the bottom of the ocean in crushing darkness. I'd give Starfish a try unless that sounds horrible to you. While it doesn't get fully resolved, I think it actually comes to a pretty neat ending on its own that gives you room to keep thinking about it (and really, that's true of lots of great literature).