Author | Peter Watts |
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Cover artist | Richard Anderson |
Language | English |
Series | Firefall |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | 2014 |
Publication place | Canada |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 383 |
ISBN | 978-0765328038 |
OCLC | 858730761 |
LC Class | PR9199.3.W386 E24 2014 |
Preceded by | Blindsight |
Echopraxia is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts.[1] It is a "sidequel" to his 2006 novel, Blindsight, and the two novels make up the Firefall series.
Echopraxia follows the story of a biologist who gets caught up in a voyage into the heart of the Solar System among members of a transcendentalist monastic order and allies (including a vampire escaped from a research facility and her cadre of zombified soldiers) to investigate a mysterious signal seemingly coming from the mission sent to initiate first contact in Watts' previous novel.
The title refers to a psychological condition in which a person involuntarily mimics actions they observe.