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Friday Fun Thread for February 14, 2025

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I'd recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts. The aliens are alien, far beyond on us, and don't particularly like us.

Great book, one of the most surprising and enjoyable reads of the last 5 years for me.

Without spoiling too much, Watts' aliens not just don't like us, they are nothing us, which is rather terrifying and very Lovecraftian - an entity who is entirely incapable of caring for humanity's existence at all, and possessing powers well beyond humanity's understanding.