I've finished: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson

This is my first Wilson novel since the Spin trilogy.

This time the quarantine is of a scientific facility, not the entire planet.

Blind lake starts as an examination of the scientific method, as it applies to studying alien intelligence. At first I thought I was going to get something in the vain of His Master's Voice by Stanislav Lem.

I'm happy to say this was not the case, it is a much more human story, focusing on the characters and their relationships.

It is strange to read a novel published in 2003, so close to the mobile data revolution yet not quite there. It has some good predictions but the mix of correct projections of technological progress and outdated concepts is uncanny.

Printing out documents in order to read them is so 2003.

Worth it for a good aliens, and some sympathetic humans. Content warning for a bunch of workplace and relationship stress.

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