Amarillo’s ABC affiliate reports: The Grinch tried to steal Christmas. Dressed as The Grinch, David Grisham carried a sign during the morning drop-off at Sleepy Hollow Elementary in Amarillo, Texas that read “Santa is Fake. Jesus is Real.” Parents, as you might imagine, were not happy to see him. One dad grabbed the sign and …
Thank you for your candor! And no, I don’t believe in freewill either.
Ever read Dr. Peter Watt’s novel Blindsight? Fiction of course, but written by a very smart biologist. Two of the main questions are, is freewill real? And, what is the use of consciousness?
Both absurd questions on the surface! But are those really dumb questions?
It’s a first contact novel, and the captain of the ship sent to investigate is a vampire. Really. Using current human and discovered DNA, we’ve resurrected extinct hominids from the Pleistocene. Book does a great job examining what an obligate homo sapien carnivore would look and act like, how they might evolve. It also examines near post-human possibilities and what those might look like.
I’ll stop now. If I start quoting the cool parts, I’ll just end up quoting it all. Worst complaints I’ve heard are people not relating to the characters. Well, they’re not “baseline” humans, they’re cutting edge so to speak. We’re not meant to understand them completely. And the narrator is unreliable. People have bitched about that, but he pretty much admits it from the first chapter.
Anywho, it’s free to read/download from the author’s site. If you like that one, the only sequel, Echopraxia is a worthy follow up.
Give the prologue a spin y’all. If that doesn’t suck you in, no hurt feelings.
Thank you. I look forward to reading it.
Excerpt From The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr.
I just finished reading it. I’m not sure I understood all of it, but I enjoyed it.