Six Wakes

And, you know, even then they might be wrong.

The first review Six Wakes got was negative.

Kirkus did not like it.

You know, they knocked the science research that I had done.

Right, the stuff everyone knows.

Yeah, like Isaac Asimov's Foundation or James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes.

I mean, they are brilliant, obviously.

Oh, classics.

I like that trade-off.

It respects the reader's intelligence.

But if Six Wakes gets a little wobbly explaining the rules of consciousness, our next book takes the entire concept of human consciousness, puts it under a microscope, and then absolutely shatters the lens.

We have arrived at Blindsight by Peter Watts, published in 2006.