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zebra2 · 3864 days ago · link · · parent · post: Scifi club: Blindsight discussion/voting for club #8
So one thing I was confused about when I first read this book was regarding Siri's "intervention" with Sarasti, where Sarasti ends up going batshit. The other crew were in on it, except for the batshit part, but what exactly did they expect was going to happen, and what was the point of attacking him on Sarasti's part? Anyways, I liked the gradual exposition and understanding that the crew developed over the book, the way they revised their theories as things were discovered, and the fact that it stuck to having a scientific basis for every phenomenon or technology they encountered, even if it did flounder on that point at times. Many authors just give up and resort to science magic at some point, even in Rama.