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Blindsight

door Peter Watts

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.
Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.
So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?
You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist??an informational topologist with half his mind gone??as an interface between here and there.
Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied
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it has a SEVERE case of no likable characters, but i still appreciated what it had going on. ( )
  ansate | Feb 5, 2024 |
Wasn't a huge fan, but it was alright. Probably won't read the rest of the series. The creatures moving during eye saccades (?) was very interesting though. ( )
  cactuscat | Dec 31, 2023 |
I really want to give this book more. I really do. But I can’t honestly do it for a fraction of whole story concerning only Siri Keeton. There is too many other things that irregularly spread throughout the book that won’t come out as a whole. I think this book is compressed too much.

But the story of Siri Keeton... this is difficult. Idea of Chinese Room applied to social interaction feels so close to home that it really really hurts. And this book don’t show the way out of there. It is totally depressing and hopeless. ( )
  WorkLastDay | Dec 17, 2023 |
Fantastically cynical hard sci-fi, overflowing with ideas. Some of the most memorable are barely relevant to the plot. Themes of first contact, alien lifeforms, body modification, consciousness, communication. Wrapped in a gripping and highly focussed plot. Hope the later books live up to this one. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
I read this a long while back so the rating's a bit of a guess and this is just a few general notes but I finished the whole thing in one night reading on a computer screen so I must have enjoyed it. Although iirc I thought the ending was a little anti-climactic, although not really disappointing. Probably scarier if you have a view on human conciousness that sees it as important or even existing at all. The descriptions of stuff like the vampires are cool. It's bleak and dark and the view of the future is pretty interesting and makes you think about stuff but yeah it's super depressing so be warned

But at the same time don't blame me if this sucks haha. It might have been a 3 star book but I definitely remember enjoying it so I doubt you'll be too disappointed if you like that kind of vaguely hard sci fi ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
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AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Peter Wattsprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Bear, ElizabethIntroductieSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Pringle, ThomasArtiest omslagafbeeldingSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Shimada, YoichiVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.
Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.
So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?
You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist??an informational topologist with half his mind gone??as an interface between here and there.
Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

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