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maulrat 's review for:
Echopraxia
by Peter Watts
Don't waste your time. Where Blindsight was a brilliant slog into the depths of space and the fututre of humanity, Echopraxia is a pale reflection. The plot is even more sloggy and to no actual worthwhile end. In Blindsight, even with the tragic ending, you know that the story is carrying forward. Well that will all be squashed in Echopraxia where another crew of complex characters will be randomly killed with no closure of any of their plot lines and no hint that there could ever be. Will I still read the Colonel? Probably. In hopes that his story might have some of its dignity returned. I'm bummed because Watt's mind for scifi concepts is brilliant and contains all of the hard elements I crave while still incorporating plenty of whimsy and nonsensical ideas which he makes sense of. Space vampires! The concepts are so strong that it almost holds him down when it comes to a true fulfilling plot. So much time is spent with exposition that the climax isn't worth the knowledge.