Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Robert Charles Wilson is a rare SF author. Never truly made it big, but his lit is almost universally good. This 2003 novel starts out character-focused, thriller-like, with the complications built-in to an isolated scientific community, locked in to a quarantine they couldn't understand--but the true SFnal aspects come from the truly alien speculations and the hard-SF core.

Sure, it's a novel about our psychology in the face of the other, but it's a GOOD one.

I miss careful, thoughtful SF novels like this. Ones that aren't all about identity, but awe and even the idea of transcendence, even in a minor way. Worth the read.


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