This book features the following tropes (Warning: spoilers below): And their pilgrimage might bring Dan Brüks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.
Dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks leads them all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids”. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. To his right is a vengeful pilot, still searching for the man she's sworn to kill on sight. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed with whispered messages from a dead son. Now he’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. But one night he awakens to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Once a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands, he's taken refuge in the Oregon desert, turning his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies every heartbeat.
And it’s all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.ĭaniel Brüks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational. A world where the dearly-departed send postcards back from digital "Heaven" and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues where genetically-engineered vampires solve problems intractable to normal humans, and soldiers come with "zombie switches" that shut off self-awareness during combat. It's the eve of the twenty-second century. While Blindsight takes place primarily in the outer Solar System and tells a story of First Contact, Echopraxia instead tells a largely stand-alone story depicting what is happening on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System. It is a sequel to the novel Blindsight, though it is set concurrently and the events of both novels take place during roughly the same time period. Echopraxia is a hard Science Fiction novel by Canadian author Peter Watts.
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