Plus, this novel suffers even more from the high density, disturbing quality and poor readability that went on in Blindsight. On the negative side, I didn’t like any of these people. It’s kind of scary that this really is a projection from research and ideas already out there in the human knowledge base. This may all seem fantastical, but Watts has written an addendum at the end that includes references for all the science behind the story. Instead, this seems to be about God, the nature of transhumanity, the blind success of evolution and how everyone eventually becomes extinct through natural selection. I didn’t get the feeling of alienness from this book like I did from Blindsight. The plot is thin, and most of the pages are taken up with theme and discussion.

This book continues in the same vein as Blindsight. Can they make it back alive? What will humanity do without Icarus station? They find that Valerie has fastened onto the outside of the ship, but expect reentry into Earth’s atmosphere will burn her up. Most of the crew is lost, but Brüks, Moore and Sengupta manage to undock from the station and escape. Too late, he realizes it’s intelligent and trying to capture humans as biological samples of its own.

Brüks takes samples and investigates its biology. They travel to the Icarus power station, where they find an alien slime infesting the facility. The Bicamerals seem to have a plan and Brüks is stuck going along. He wakes onboard a spaceship, along with some Bicamerals, a female vampire Valerie, a couple of her zombie bodyguards, and various transhumans including the pilot Sengupta, looking for the man responsible for her wife’s death, a friendly jargonaut Liana Lutterodt, and an old soldier Jim Moore who lost his son Siri on the Theseus expedition. He’s collecting samples in the Oregon desert, looking for baseline DNA, when he gets caught up in a firefight between the hive-mind Bicameral monks and a squad of zombie soldiers. This review contains spoilers.ĭaniel Brüks is a biologist and a baseline human, which is a serious anachronism at the end of the 21st century. It was released by Tor Books in August, 2014, and runs 384 pages. This is Book #2 of the Firefall series, sequel to the Hugo finalist Blindsight.

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