My a favorite part of the vampire thing is how they died out. Turns out vampires start seizing when trying to visually process 90° angles, and humans love building shit like that (not to mention a cross is littered with them). Itâs so mundane an extinction Iâd almost believe it.
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CitizenKong@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠agoBlindsight is such a great novel. It has not one, not two but three great sci-fi concepts rolled into one.
One is artificial intelligence (the shipâs captain is an AI), the second is alien life so vastly different it appears incomprehensible to human minds. And last but not least, and the most wild, vampires as a evolutionary branch of humanity that died out and has been recreated in the future.
TommySalami@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Also, the extremely post-cyberpunk posthumans, and each member of the crew is a different extremely capable kind of fucked up model of what we might become, with the protagonist personifying the genre of horror that it is, whike still being occasionally hilarious.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Oooh, I didnât even know it had a sequel!
I wouldnât say it flirts with the supernatural as much as itâs with one foot into weird fiction, which is where cosmic horror comes from.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Characters in the sequel include a hive-mind of post-science innovation monks, a straight up witch who charges their monastery at the head of a zombie army, and a plotline about finding what the monks think might be god. And that first scene, which is absolute fire btw.