Dec 13, 2019

Advent Calendar - 13th Wormhole

Behind our 13th wormhole, somehting angry is waiting, something sentient - and smart ...


Peter Watts
Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
Marc says: "The Perfect Gift for Someone You Don’t Like Very Much" is the headline on our good friend Peter Watts' blog article to announce the publication of this, his latest (and first non-fiction) book ( https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=9045 ). While we would scarcely want to disagree with him, this caption also serves as a hint for why you might want to instead gift it to people you do like: Watts is extremely smart, funny, self-deprecating, and honest to the point of brutality. These 51 essays on subjects as diverse as human biases, surveillance, flesh-eating disease and the X-Men are an optimistic celebration of life lived fiercely and simultaneously a dissection of views held perhaps too dearly. They will make you laugh, ponder, gasp, and maybe, above all, care.

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