Peter Watts (1) (1958–)
Autor/a de Blindsight
Per altres autors anomenats Peter Watts, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Sobre l'autor
Peter Watts is a reformed marine biologist whom Canada's Globe and Mail has proclaimed "one of the very best hard-SF writers alive"
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Dan Brooks. (2007)
Sèrie
Obres de Peter Watts
The Island 45 exemplars
ZeroS {short story} 6 exemplars
The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald 6 exemplars
Repeating the Past [short story] 4 exemplars
Nimbus 4 exemplars
The Eyes of God 4 exemplars
Home 4 exemplars
A Word For Heathens 3 exemplars
Ambassador 3 exemplars
Flesh Made Word 3 exemplars
Giants 3 exemplars
Bethlehem and others: collected stories 3 exemplars
Hitchhiker 3 exemplars
Hillcrest v. Velikovsky (short story) 2 exemplars
Test 4 Echo [short fiction] 2 exemplars
Bulk Food 2 exemplars
Complete Short Fiction 1 exemplars
Bethlehem 1 exemplars
Rifters Trilogy (4 Book Series) 1 exemplars
Collateral 1 exemplars
Fractals 1 exemplars
The Eyes of God and other stories 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006) — Col·laborador — 525 exemplars
The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Science Fiction Adventure (2009) — Col·laborador — 319 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (2011) — Col·laborador — 287 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Col·laborador — 279 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015) — Col·laborador — 167 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 136 exemplars
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Col·laborador — 123 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020 (2020) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact (2018) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
Extreme Planets: A Science Fiction Anthology of Alien Worlds (Chaosium fiction) (2014) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Canadian Speculative Fiction (Prairie Fire, Vol. 15., no.2 - 1994 Summer) (1994) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Strangest of All — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Bifrost n°93 Dossier Peter Watts - la Revue des Mondes Imaginaires (2019) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
StarShipSofa Stories Volume 3 — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Watts, Peter
- Data de naixement
- 1958-01-25
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Canada (birth)
- Lloc de naixement
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Llocs de residència
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Educació
- University of Guelph
University of British Columbia - Professions
- marine mammal biologist
science fiction writer - Relacions
- Sweet, Caitlin (partner)
Membres
Converses
ISO: Blindsight a Centipede Press (novembre 2021)
Ressenyes
Blindsight de Peter Watts
Fantastically cynical hard sci-fi, overflowing with ideas. Some of the most memorable are barely relevant to the plot. Themes of first contact, alien lifeforms, body modification, consciousness, communication. Wrapped in a gripping and highly focussed plot. Hope the later books live up to this one.
Very compelling page turner with a really interesting concept. I did not understand all the science jargon (bits of which I think he just invented without explaining, which fine) but the stuff I *did* understand was genuinely interesting. In a way having a lot of words I only vaguely got an impression from was good because it makes the whole thing seem as alien and out of my comprehension as it should be.
I read this a long while back so the rating's a bit of a guess and this is just a few general notes but I finished the whole thing in one night reading on a computer screen so I must have enjoyed it. Although iirc I thought the ending was a little anti-climactic, although not really disappointing. Probably scarier if you have a view on human conciousness that sees it as important or even existing at all. The descriptions of stuff like the vampires are cool. It's bleak and dark and the view of the future is pretty interesting and makes you think about stuff but yeah it's super depressing so be warned
But at the same time don't blame me if this sucks haha. It might have been a 3 star book but I definitely remember enjoying it so I doubt you'll be too disappointed if you like that kind of vaguely hard sci fi… (més)
But at the same time don't blame me if this sucks haha. It might have been a 3 star book but I definitely remember enjoying it so I doubt you'll be too disappointed if you like that kind of vaguely hard sci fi… (més)
If you've ever bemoaned starting from zero with each new book, hearing the same sci fi tropes explained for the hundredth time and just want a book that throws you in the deep end, this is it. With shades of Hyperion and The Expanse, this single book has packed in the world building of a trilogy and expects you to keep up.
Although the book is dense and narratively complex in a rewarding way, it stumbles a bit toward the end and doesn't tie things up in a nice bow. High hopes for the sequel.
Although the book is dense and narratively complex in a rewarding way, it stumbles a bit toward the end and doesn't tie things up in a nice bow. High hopes for the sequel.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 47
- També de
- 62
- Membres
- 7,072
- Popularitat
- #3,472
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 322
- ISBN
- 148
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 23
- Pedres de toc
- 195