Echopraxia
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New York : Tor, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
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383 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WATTS 2014
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Published
New York : Tor, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

Notes

General Note
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Watts, P. (2014). Echopraxia (First edition.). Tor.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Watts, Peter, 1958-. 2014. Echopraxia. Tor.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Watts, Peter, 1958-. Echopraxia Tor, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Watts, Peter. Echopraxia First edition., Tor, 2014.

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