/lit/ - Literature

>>11669908
Yeah I loved Too Like the Lightning, easily the best book I read last year. We talked about it a bit at the time, but as with any general, the conversation usually just returns to the norm (in our case mostly fantasy chit-chat).

I shilled it a fair bit, and I agree with all your points its an excellent piece of modern sci-fi, if not genre fiction. You wanna campaign with me to get it in the OP pasta lists? It's a new arrival but I think it's high quality has earned it a place in /sffg/'s recommended list.

What did you think of the third in series? Seven Surrenders was more consistent excellent, but I felt Will to Battle well a little flat in places.

>>10909372
It's certainly a book which rewards re-reading.
I feel Watt's core strengths and weaknesses as an author overlap; he's a scientist. This gives him an expert mastery of visualising his future on an accute micro- to macro- scale in the context of engaging hard sci-fi, but equally retarding his ability to construct a narrative or cast to match his ideas.
By no means does Blindsight fall flat in these areas, but it's sad the novel's 10/10 substance are let down but7/10 style, though I would argue the lesser publisher involvement in Echopraxia is obvious by how that novel seems to be 12/10 for substance (in a bad way) and a mere 5/10 for style.

Irregardless, I would really like to take us all back a few months and shamelessly shill the fuck out of Blindsight. Any contempory scif-i fan, even if you don't enjoy the intricacies of harder sci-fi, should recognise this is required reading for the alien invasion genre. Even one small chapter of Blindsight has more riviting ideas packed into it than most novels manage in their entire length. A fucking tour de force indeed.

If you want a novel which manages to the reverse of Echopraxia, with a whopping 13/10 for style but mediocre 5/10 for substances, I suggest you read Too Like the Lightning, a novel so far but its own arse that it's actually incredibly enjoyable.

FINAL SHILLDOWN edition

>who do you like shilling?
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FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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