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I am reading Blindsight from a nook so the page number may be different.  This is towards the end of part 2.  Sarasti says this to Siri when he is going to send Siri back. I thought this was an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“‘If you don’t retrain you’re obsolete inside a month, and then you’re not much good for anything except Heaven or dictation.’” (Pg. 254) This sentence illustrates the dilemma with which humanity is faced in Peter Watts’ bleak picture of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“They’re tricks of the mind, the same neurological smoke-and-mirrors that convinced people throughout the ages that they were being haunted by ghosts, abducted by aliens, hunted by— —vampires— —and you wonder whether Sarasti really stayed behind or if he was here all along, waiting for you…” (159). I think this quote can serve as an […] Continue reading →

We would bleed from our eyes and mouths and assholes, and if any God was merciful we would die before splitting open like rotten fruit. (Blindsight 173) The above line isn’t the most important in the story, but it was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Jesus, Siri. People aren’t rational. You aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re—we’re feeling machines that happen to think.”  There are lines said by Pag as above, in the page of 194.  This short comment of Pag indicates the most … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“First-person sex — real sex as Chelsea insisted on calling it — was an acquired taste: jagged breathing, the raw slap and stink of sweaty skin full of pores and blemishes, a whole other person with a whole other set … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Pg. 147- “I know aliens are supposed to be all mysterious and everything, but I still don’t see why anyone would build a city-sized wildlife refuge for anaerobic microbes” -Isaac Szpindel                 I would have to say that from the second I read this page; this was the most compelling sentence that stuck to me […] Continue reading →

“There was something like sympathy in the vampire’s voice, the practiced affectation of an accomplished mimic. There was something else, too, an all-but-imperceptible hunger, a subtle edge of temptation. I don’t think anyone heard it but me.” (113) This quote … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This line came at the end of a long paragraph talking about the history of Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as Multiple Core Complex, and what “ancient” (modern day) scientists believed was the stem of the problem.  I really enjoyed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“When the fate of the world hangs in the balance, you want to keep an eye on anyone whose career-defining moment involves consorting with the enemy.” (page 187) I began to see a theme of trust emerging in the novel … Continue reading → Continue reading →