/lit/ - Literature

What a stinker. The whole book is filled with forced references to scientific concepts. Is it supposed to impress the reader that Peter Watts has the ability to skim wikipedia? And why do all these genius characters constantly have these emotional outbursts? Neither of these things are how smart people behave, it's how unimpressive nerds act. And the plot is fucking retarded too. The big reveal is that sentience is just a mistake and you can have intelligence without it. Total nonsense which ends up being irrelevant because they defeat the aliens through kamikaze.

I thought there might be some payoff worth the cringe, but no, this book is distilled midwittery. If you love XKCD and LessWrong you will like this book.

So I just finished this and the other one and really loved it.

Can someone recommend a good science fiction book to read next besides Three Body Problem? These are literally the only sci-fi novels I have read.