Ultimately, Watts's science-fictional project forces literary criticism and theory to reconsider the following relations: a) that between perspectival stability and narrative meaning, and b) that between narrative structure and the discursive demands of science fiction. It does not enable one to dispense with the contrary. This essay argues that the relationship between these two texts is far more complex than prequel and sequel, and that their combined structure calls into question the rationale of narrative theory (as it has been practiced in literary studies), and even the production of meaning itself, by reconfiguring narrative as a super-intelligent evolutionary system. Patrick Whitmarsh Imagine You’re a Machine: Narrative Systems in Peter Watts’s Blindsightand Echopraxia A preference for meaning over world, for order over perturbation, for information over noise is only a preference.

In the end, it was mentioned Rorschach were constructing a magnetic cannon from the magnetosphere, did. Watts's critique of anthropocentrism, however, exceeds the compelling and sometimes disturbing thought experiments he depicts in his fiction beyond the novelty of their content, Watts's recent novels Blindsight (2006) and Echopraxia (2014) attack the values of humanism at the level of narrative form. Blindsight features a group of transhumans on a first contact with an alien species (Rorschach). Peter Watts is a relatively new figure in the field of science fiction, and his recent work has presented the literary community with a refreshingly innovative take on the ontological question of the human.

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