Brian Foudray

Fast paced apocalyptic first contact story

Revisado: 05-08-23

I found this book via Quinn's Ideas' Youtube channel, and I'm glad I read it. It's a quick read, and the plot is fast-paced, but the draw for this book has to be the plethora of big ideas. They explode on the pages of this book. Every chapter introduces something new. As for the characters, they aren't great, but that is to be expected from a single, relatively short sci fi novel. You read this book for the big ideas and action, not the character development. That isn't to say the characters are terrible, just that they aren't the focus.

Overall, I recommend this to fans of hard sci fi and apocalyptic fiction. This story clearly had a major influence on Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. I would strongly recommend this to anyone who was a fan of that series. In fact, this book is effectively a condensed version of that trilogy.

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Fun small town horror story

Revisado: 05-08-23

This was a really good listening experience. This narrator is one of the best I've ever heard. He absolutely nails this type of story. The story itself is interesting, if a little slow paced. The characters feel realistic and fit well in the small town/village setting, but they tend to fall into the Stephen King style characterization from his 70s and 80s novels, as many horror novels from that period do. I know some people might find that to be a drawback, but I thought they were well drawn, and I cared about at least a couple of them. Another Kingism in this novel is the focus on small town dynamics and the degree to which the townies are the real monsters, not the creatures. Again, if that puts you off, then you should skip this one. As for me, my favorite King novel is Salem's Lot, so I really liked Campbell's take on the English version of that type of story.

Overall, I recommend this audiobook for anyone looking for an entertaining, not gory horror story from the 80s in the vein of the best early Stephen King stories.

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very imaginative and original sci fi

Revisado: 04-28-23

A scientist turned writer who can weave in hard and/or speculative science in an entertaining and thought-provoking manner is a writer to be treasured. The story in Blindsight is one of the few cases where a hard sci fi author incorporates the soft sciences into his speculation about the future, including many interesting insights into psychology and sociology. Still, the emphasis on evolutionary biology and consciousness is the undisputed focus and best part of this story. Additionally, the narration is fantastic. The narrator does a great job differentiating between the characters and including emotional and tonal color in both dialogue and narration.

Overall, I recommend this for anyone who liked the Ridley Scott Alien movies, the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu, or horror sci fi in general, This is such a great book!

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The book mostly fulfills and interesting premise.

Revisado: 08-29-22

This is hard sci-fi. If you don't like detailed discussions of speculative science fiction and real world physics, then this isn't the book for you.

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Not much here beyond a bug hunt.

Revisado: 08-29-22

This book was recommended to me on Audible and Reddit after I finished Pandora's Star. I guess the aliens in both books are inhuman and cruel, but that's the only similarity. This is an action based story, ala James Cameron's Aliens. It isn't really hard sci fi or space opera, as I was hoping. The narrator is pretty good, and the action is interesting, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

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One of the best horror audiobooks of all time.

Revisado: 10-06-20

I absolutely loved this book and the narration as well. This is one of the most well written horror anthologies I've ever read.

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Fantastic horror stories.

Revisado: 10-06-20

This is a fantastic set of horror stories. That said, I did not care for the performer/reader.

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