A review by dleybz
Echopraxia by Peter Watts

5.0

God damn it. I really wanted to dislike this book. And honestly, I did for like 80% of the time that I was reading it. The cool ideas took longer the develop, the action slowed down instead of speeding up over the course of the book, and holy shit does Watts know how to obfuscate his writing. So much about this book sucks to read. But so much of what the book says is incredible to think about. Digital physics, God as a virus, time-shared cognition, neural networks with low bandwidth or great size losing the coherence required for consciousness... There is just so much cool shit in here. Highly recommend to anybody who wants to think about interesting concepts, especially if they don't mind inflicting severe psychic pain on themselves in the process.