Echopraxia (Firefall Book 2)
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Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts&apos; Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he&apos;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&apos;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&apos;t yet found the man she&apos;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. At the Publisher&apos;s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Publisher: Tor Books; First edition (August 26, 2014)
Publication date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
File size: 1284 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 384 pages