Echopraxia (2014) – Peter Watts Free Audiobook

Written by Peter Watts
Read by Adam J Rough
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

Book Description
Publication Date: August 26, 2014

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts’ Echopraxia,
the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight .

It’s the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly
departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific
breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires
solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with
zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it’s
all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.-

Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where
biology has turned computational, a cat’s-paw used by terrorists to
kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he’s turned his
back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every
heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of
a storm that will turn all of history inside-out.
Now he’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system.
To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages
from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn’t yet found the man
she’s sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie
bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of
rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they
will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids.”

Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with
the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.