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Название книги: The Things
Автор(ы): Уоттс Питер
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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About author
Peter Watts is an awkward hybrid of biologist and science-fiction author, known
for pioneering the technique of appending extensive technical bibliographies
onto his novels; this serves both to confer a veneer of credibility and to
cover his ass against nitpickers. Described by the Globe & Mail as one of the
best hard-sf authors alive, his debut novel (Starfish) was a NY Times Notable
Book. His most recent (Blindsight) — a rumination on the nature of consciousness
which actually became a required text in occasional undergrad courses on
philosophy and neuropsych — made the final ballot for a whole shitload of genre
awards including the Hugo, winning exactly none of them (although it has won
multiple awards in Poland). This may reflect a certain critical divide
regarding Watts' work in general; his bipartite novel behemoth, for example,
was praised by Publisher’s Weekly as an "adrenaline-charged fusion of Clarke’s
The Deep Range and Gibson’s Neuromancer" and "a major addition to 21st-century
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