/lit/ - Literature

>>9662265
Blindsight had plenty of neologisms, something that has always irked me a bit with scifi; I don't think I've ever read a scifi book with completely 'natural' feeling neologisms, they always feel a bit forced.

And yes, the crew being revealed to be speaking in dozens of languages was a cool concept. How you throw in Hindi and Farsi and Mandarin words to better get across what you're trying to convey because they do it better than the equivalent words in English or French or German say.

>>9662476
Not him, but I'd be very content with as many people reading it as possible. It really is a fantastic book. It has it's problems of course, as often happens when non-writers become writers and invariably go for scifi, but those are all overshadowed by how good it is in general. Echopraxia was a let down in comparison but still a nice enough read.

Personally I'm looking forward to the third (and final?) book in the series he's writing. Hopefully some of the leftover questions from both books are going to be answered.