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  "id": "booksreddit:recommendation-receipt:blindsight",
  "book": {
    "slug": "blindsight",
    "title": "Blindsight",
    "author": "Peter Watts",
    "authors": [
      "Peter Watts"
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    "first_published": 2006
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  "consensus": "Blindsight is r/printSF's whole personality: 5232 of 5403 total mentions come from that one subreddit, dwarfing 137 on r/suggestmeabook and 34 on r/Fantasy. One thread just calls it \"printSF's lord and savior\" (↑145), less a joke than a description of thread behavior — someone posts any vaguely first-contact or hard-SF question and the top reply is reflexively this book.",
  "read_if": "You already read r/printSF and haven't hit this yet, somehow; 5232 of the subreddit's mentions here say fix that. Come for ideas about consciousness and vampire biology working as a real thesis, not set dressing. Pair it with Echopraxia the way the threads do. If cold, mechanism-over-feeling prose is a dealbreaker, take the intricate-revolver complaint (↑141) seriously before you start.",
  "skip_if": "One commenter (↑141) compares the book to an intricate revolver: admires the craft, doesn't want to actually hold it.",
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    "subreddit": "printSF",
    "excerpt": "don't you mean Blindsight?",
    "score": 245,
    "sentiment": 0.3,
    "published_at": "2020-12-15T17:09:08+00:00",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kdpej8/before_you_recommend_hyperion/gfxs08u/"
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  "dissent": {
    "editorial_caveat": "One commenter (↑141) compares the book to an intricate revolver: admires the craft, doesn't want to actually hold it.",
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      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "*Blindsight* is a big one. I have nothing but respect for the ideas at play, and I understand the appreciation it garners, but the telling of that story leaves me cold. I often compare it to a very intricate revolver. I can appreciate the mechanism, but I don’t want to hold it, thanks.",
      "score": 141,
      "sentiment": -0.3,
      "published_at": "2025-09-12T18:22:37+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1nfamr2/which_wildly_renowned_science_fiction_novels/nduzlit/"
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    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "don't you mean Blindsight?",
      "score": 245,
      "sentiment": 0.3,
      "published_at": "2020-12-15T17:09:08+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/kdpej8/before_you_recommend_hyperion/gfxs08u/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "*Blindsight* is a big one. I have nothing but respect for the ideas at play, and I understand the appreciation it garners, but the telling of that story leaves me cold. I often compare it to a very intricate revolver. I can appreciate the mechanism, but I don’t want to hold it, thanks.",
      "score": 141,
      "sentiment": -0.3,
      "published_at": "2025-09-12T18:22:37+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1nfamr2/which_wildly_renowned_science_fiction_novels/nduzlit/"
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    {
      "subreddit": "Fantasy",
      "excerpt": "“Blindsight” and “Echopraxia” by Peter Watts, along with supplemental materials. They’re a heavy duty read, with more ideas than straightforward plot. One of those ideas is the genetically engineered recreation of a long-extinct species of vampire, and how that turned out to be a serious mistake.",
      "score": 231,
      "sentiment": 0.1,
      "published_at": "2022-12-04T18:52:27+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/zchbhs/is_there_any_vampire_fiction_where_they_try_to/iywjs78/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "Dude, calm down. I think you should read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It will revolutionize your perspection of good sci-fi novel.",
      "score": 195,
      "sentiment": 0.8,
      "published_at": "2019-07-14T11:59:50+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/cd1yck/meta_could_we_ban_suggesting_banks_simmons_and/etqx1f9/"
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