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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll be honest, I’ve read Blindsight a few times and pretty sure only read echopraxia once. Like 10 years ago.

  But I re-read the synopsis to refresh my memory.

  I remember liking Blindsight more. But not why.

  I’m also not sure which story elements I’m remembering came from which book.

  Was the whole vampire arch and twist from book 1 or 2?

  Can you remind me of a few specific points ? Maybe that will jog my memory. Or maybe I just need to re-read it.

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  • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the vampire bit is used in both, in book 1 the main character journeys with one and at the end of the story starts to think Earth has been taken over by vampires due to radio transmissions he’s receiving on his long voyage back home. Book 2 begins with a prologue of a group of vampires breaking out of their holding cells, reversing the Crucifix Glitch on their captors, and then their leader eventually groups up with the main character (as well as the dad of book 1’s MC) and they all journey to the Sun (or rather, a station orbiting the sun). The second book also has that group/cult of people who are trying to make a gestalt consciousness, the Bicamurals I think they’re called.

    Like ai told another commenter, I don’t like it as much as Blindsight, but I still think Echopraxia is really good, they just focus on wildly different topics.

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    • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah okay that all sounds familiar. I’m going to have to give it another read.

      Now I’m thinking about this gestalt consciousness you mentioned. And I’m very curious how that is defined in the book.

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