If you were hooked by Dr. Ha Nguyen methodically decoding the octopus commune while sparring with Evrim’s unsettling self-awareness, you’ll love the way Blindsight dissects alien contact as a problem in cognition. A crew led by Siri Keeton and the predatory captain Jukka Sarasti confronts the enigmatic entity “Rorschach,” where every discovery feels like Ha’s lab breakthroughs—only colder, stranger, and rooted in brutal evolutionary logic. It scratches the same itch for exacting science, thorny theories of mind, and the chilling possibility that intelligence doesn’t require consciousness.

The way The Mountain in the Sea pits Ha, Altantsetseg, and Evrim against the limits of empathy and definition—can we truly know an octopus culture? is Evrim a person?—echoes through Solaris. Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a station orbiting the planet-wide ocean of Solaris and meets “visitors” conjured from memory, as the sentient sea resists every attempt at understanding. If the moral quandaries around DIANIMA’s corporate aims and Ha’s ethics gripped you, Solaris is that tension distilled: intimate, unsettling, and unanswerable.

If the Con Dao sanctuary, the octopus habitat, and the push-pull between conservation and corporate extraction drew you in, The Door Into Ocean amplifies those stakes on a planetary scale. The Sharers of Shora are ocean-dwelling genetic biotechnologists whose culture of reciprocity clashes with imperial powers—much like Ha’s research colliding with DIANIMA’s weaponized interests. You’ll get deep ecological worldbuilding and ethical resistance that echoes Altantsetseg’s hard lines and Ha’s refusal to turn discovery into domination.

Loved watching Ha reconstruct syntax and culture from the octopuses’ patterns while Evrim challenged human-centric assumptions? Children of Time tracks the rise of an uplifted spider civilization—told across generations—as human survivors like Holsten Mason struggle to understand it. The thrill here is the same: piecing together an alien society’s language, tech, and values from first principles, and confronting what that means for our species’ place in the cosmos.

If the investigative pulse of Ha’s mission—quiet dives, contested evidence, and corporate/military pressure—kept you turning pages, The Kraken Wakes channels that energy into a planetary mystery. Journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson track strange fireballs and deep-sea activity that escalate into flooding and global panic, mirroring how DIANIMA’s secrecy and the octopus breakthrough ripple into international stakes. It’s a measured, dread-filled unravelling of an ocean-borne enigma.