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I tried reading Alien Clay. Didn't quite finish it; repetitive prose and ideas, some degree of oppression porn, . Felt like Avatar written by an ecologist who is also a labor-of-my-body lets-have-a-commitee-meeting marxist rather than a blue cat native-american fetishist who likes submarines. The creatures were initially interesting, but then the planet becomes an anonymous blob of empathy breaking through the false consciousness, solving the coordination problem, and overthrowing the bootlickers. I think my personal grudges prevented me from enjoying it. TL;DR "What if [bad thing: hiveminds] is actually good?"
I liked Blindsight much more.
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