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This is one of the coolest things I've read here in some time. This is the kind of insanity I can get behind. > The rest of us might think we achieve artistic
by Atreiden 1y ago
This is one of the coolest things I've read here in some time. This is the kind of insanity I can get behind.
> The rest of us might think we achieve artistic immortality if our work lasts a century or three. Bök blows his nose at such puny ambitions. His work might get deciphered by Fermi aliens who finally make it to our neighborhood a billion years from now. It could be iterating right up until the sun swallows this planet whole.
I got frisson reading this. I may have to read the author's novels, his writing style is compelling.
- subscribed 1y agoYou can download several of his novels from his own website. Yeah, for free. And indeed, his style is like this. It's really hard to put the book down.
- The5thElephant 1y agoPeter Watts is fantastic. Very different tone from a lot of other scifi, with some very clever and dark ideas.
- Wobbles42 1y agoI read Starfish close to 20 years ago. He had a uniquely dark vision of the future compared to the zeitgeist in 2007 or so. It's been interesting living through reality since then. I fear the day will come when I reread his earlier works and they start sounding optimistic.
- throwanem 1y agoWhat wasn't optimistic about the Behemoth trilogy? There are humans alive at the end.
- andrewflnr 1y agoI actually do really like the ending of that series, but not for its optimism.
- throwanem 1y agoI found it a letdown, lacking conviction and thus unconvincing. Oh, the story had to end some kind of way, but by then both its author and I had mostly lost interest. I don't hold that against what came prior.