Name: Anonymous 2006-11-04 15:33
Has anyone read this? I just finished it and it's insanely good. It's a HARD sf first contact story, and while that might seem extremely cliched I guarantee no one's done anything quite like it before.
It's difficult to describe just how well backed up the science part of this sf is. Everything from a teleported antimatter drive to goddammed vampires are rigorously justified (in fact the end notes have so many footnoted references that the footnotes tend to take up more than half the page). For a taste of that, have a look at the Watts' Vampire Domestication lecture at http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
The book is also very depressing. Very. But if you can get your hands on a copy, it's well worth the read.
It's difficult to describe just how well backed up the science part of this sf is. Everything from a teleported antimatter drive to goddammed vampires are rigorously justified (in fact the end notes have so many footnoted references that the footnotes tend to take up more than half the page). For a taste of that, have a look at the Watts' Vampire Domestication lecture at http://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
The book is also very depressing. Very. But if you can get your hands on a copy, it's well worth the read.