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Starfish by Peter Watts

Watts has this way of threading 3-4 different core themes through an exciting narrative, and unlike a more conventional novel, he doesn’t really try to make them all relate explicitly; the result in Starfish is dense and difficult, but leavened with exciting plot and compelling, tragic characters, and absolutely mesmerizing. 

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