Loved itthis was even more paranoiding atmospheric than blindsight with an even more Sinister vampire crewmate it's Bleak dark lacking much in the way of Hope but it's top-notch hard sci-fi
Echopraxia (2014)
Others: Positive A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings and ghosts, where defunct biologist Daniel Bruks becomes trapped on a spaceship destined to make an evolutionary-changing discovery.
- ISBN:
- 9781784080488
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- 384 pages
Genres: science fiction
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