Exhalation

The 2016 science fiction film Arrival is based on Story of Your Life, a short story by American writer Ted Chiang, which I thought might be interesting to read because I recall finding the movie rather unimpressive. I probably should have read the blurb on Exhalation: Stories more carefully because the anthology doesn't include that particular story -- it's in another one. That didn't stop me from reading this one, though.

Echopraxia

In 2014, Peter Watts released Echopraxia, a continuation to his thought-provoking 2006 novel Blindsight. Echopraxia is a sidequel: it takes place largely concurrently with Blindsight. (And apparently Watts wrote a lot of it while surviving a flesh-eating disease on his leg!)