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AntiJannieAktion they/them Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Jannie scalps 6mo ago (image post) 145 thread views #305702

Blindsight by Peter Watts

If you're into scifi at all you should read this. I wont spoil it but its about intelligence and consciousness. the writing is good too which is rare in scifi

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TheNationCalls ring/ring 6mo ago #7121464

This book is very strange because it's hard sci-fi that goes into a ton of technical details and describes jobs that we can barely comprehend at our level of technology.

And then there's just a vampire.

And you think, "oh cool, there's some sort of futuristic technology that turns people into vampires." But no, it's not that. The vampires have always existed alongside humanity.

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AntiJannieAktion they/them Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Jannie scalps TheNationCalls 6mo ago #7122208

its vampires that are supposed to have won out, with their "intelligence without consciousness" just like the aliens but we won due to a genetic freak accident its goofy but fits the theme

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Pibbles it/its ❤️ Registered emotional support animal ❤️ TheNationCalls 6mo ago #7122769

I think the idea is that scientists reactivated vampire genes that were dormant before, so there's still a "sci-fi" reason we have vampires as public knowledge in 2100 when we didn't in 2000.

Symbolically, it feeds into the general inhuman mood of the social changes the protagonist is living through (extreme augmentation, mind uploading, obsolescence next to AI, etc). Did anybody ask you if we SHOULD bring human-hunting apex predators back? Nah lol. It served someone's interests