{"product_id":"echopraxia-firefall-2","title":"Echopraxia (Firefall, 2)","description":"Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47828708655330,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-22-9.00-1558","price":32.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_57__uOHxzf3b.jpg?v=1779768125","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/echopraxia-firefall-2","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}