![]() ![]() The second half of Firefall (which is the Echopraxia novel) concerns what happens in the inner Solar system shortly after the events of Blindsight. Blindsight concerns this investigative space mission and is a first contact novel. And then an object was detected approaching the Solar system and a spaceship was dispatched to investigate. Both Blindsight and the second half of Firefall ( Echopraxia) start with the same premise… On 13th February 2082 (which is an unlucky-for-some Friday by my calculation) some 62,000 small objects fell from the sky in a grid pattern: someone had taken a snapshot of the Earth. ![]() ![]() By all means click on the afore Blindsight link for a separate standalone review of what is the first half of Firefall. ![]() But first, do not be panicked by Firefall's hefty page count: Firefall is not just a single novel, it is a diptych, a linked duology that contains the Hugo nominated, and Tähtivaeltaja and Seiun award-winning 2006 novel Blindsight. If you like your science fiction with hefty dollop of science then you are in for a mind-sizzling treat, and a very rare treat at that if the life sciences (biology and its allied disciplines) are your bag as nearly all of hard SF has a physics and engineering (computer science, astronomy and rocket science) slant. Review of Firefall by Peter Watts Fiction Reviews ![]()
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