• HexesofVexes
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    41 day ago

    I’ve not read blindsight, now I feel I need to!

    Thanks for the quote ^_^

    • @[email protected]OP
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      115 hours ago

      You’ve activated my trap card! Read the book 14 times or so, and it’s not a long read. Finally feel I’ve caught most of the thing. Caveat: I’m not that bright.

      Here’s another taste to whet your appetite:

      “I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a pre-copulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don’t know what went wrong.”

      (The character quoted had half his brain dug out as a child, some sort of viral epilepsy, replaced with some sort of electronics. He’s basically hyper-autistic. He’s also the unreliable narrator.)

      Blindsight is hard science fiction. The spaceship captain is a vampire, an obligate carnivore from the Pleistocene era, our ancient enemy. Yes, it works.