Image: Dan Ghiordanescu
Peter Watts has made his story The Island available online. (pdf) Once you've read it, do yourself and the author a favor and buy a copy of Blindsight. Remember:"Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." (Ijust love that quote for some odd reason)
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Is your biology scholarship as up to date as you think? Is sentience a parasite on the basic bauplan? Is language a virus? Did William Burroughs' idolin, the ugly spirit, find a new home? Is the phrase, "it can't get any worse", just a shorthand way of asking for a world of pain? Read Peter Watt's Blindsight and enjoy psychosis as an adaptive survival strategy.
