On Science Fiction

Snow Crash is absurd, loud, deeply weird, and somehow still full of ideas that escaped into the real world.

I've just finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and I devoured it in just a few days. It’s one of those books that grabs your imagination from the start and doesn’t let go until the last page.

I finally finished Echopraxia by Peter Watts this June—a sequel (or rather companion) to my beloved Blindsight, long awaited and wildly anticipated. This is hardcore hard‑SF: dense with ideas, heavy with references, and often more rewarding to read the annotations than the book itself. And yet, that very richness is both its virtue and its vice.

A rare specimen of damn strong science fiction, without the slightest bows toward adventure literature.