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Faith can hurt sometimes (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Blindsight/Echopraxia by Peter Watts had a good "science" based version. Vampires are an obligate carnivore/cannibal hominid that went extinct (after giving humans their "uncanny valley" fear btw as a survival trait to detect them) and had a heriditary fear of right angles due to a quirk in their visual cortex.

The idea being "right angles don't occur in nature" and such. The problem with that idea is that they do, but still a decent series with some interesting ideas.

[–] Two9A 3 points 1 day ago

Hold on, Blindsight has a sequel? This could be fun...

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 3 points 1 day ago

Seconded. I read those on a recommendation, not usually my genre. I enjoyed them more than I thought I would, aside from the trope of humans “creating” something dangerous that they thought they could control and of course failing.