Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) 1 month ago
His Sunflowers series is great too. Maybe my favorite (after Blindsight, of course).
Read for free on his webite: https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_TheIsland.pdf
Or collected in The Freeze-Frame Revolution here: https://www.amazon.com/Freeze-Frame-Revolution-Peter-Watts-e...