Posts Tagged ‘review’
Beeping Tom is a new Little Bo Beep column that spies with its little eye those games which fell through the cracks of time.
On the advice of a good friend I spent last night reading Peter Watt's recent novel Blindsight. It was GREAT. Whiplash-and-flash scifi that is, at its core, the best that the genre can be: brilliantly speculative. Extrapolation, prediction, and what if: Peter Watts proves himself brilliantly fluent in building worlds of possible outcomes that dont seem that far away at all. Since this article contains a few mild spoilers, take a couple of hours and read the story online here. Watts wins two internets for making the whole thing available free online! Or, support the guy and buy a paper version. By creating a foreign world that is alien both in aesthetics and in epistemology, Watts boils plot into a single, viscous question: what is sentience good for? The answers that he provides are unvarnished and insightful, and while they are not always completely original (what is these days), they offer one of the most accessable in unique perspectives on humanity that I have read. His conclusions are unforgettably powerful, and have had me second guessing my own actions ever since.
