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  • Very opaque prose and narration, especially blindsight, but once you get used to what watts is doing, the story itself is extremely compelling.

    It is hard science fiction, about as hard as granite, but it’s still fun If you can survive all the perspective-driven jargon.

    The story itself and the characters are comprehensively created; there’s a lot of positives to both books, although I preferred blindsight.

    They’re independent, sharing a world of sorts and related but with a completely different set of characters and do not at all need to be read in order or as an original and its sequel.

    I recommend diving into blindsight.




  • So many good books spring to mind.

    Maybe my favorite because of its simplicity is the simple solar cabin:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghZ2ao7GKM&t=124

    His book tells you in detail how to build the cabin start to finish: simple solar homesteading by lamar alexander

    I can’t remember which straw bale house book is the best, but I’ve never met one I didn’t like.

    Larry angell’s sweat equity is a good book.

    I haven’t read earthship specific books, but underground house books are also always an amazing read. Super low cost/footprint, as large as you want, easy to build, stable, temp-consistent

    Okay,I looked it up, The one I read that I really enjoyed was the $50 and up underground house book by mike oehler