![]() ![]() The crew is made up of odd and eccentric specialists: a linguist with surgically-induced multiple personalities, a biologist who has given up some of his neural pathways for senses and perception far beyond what a baseline human can experience, and an infamous soldier whose career-defining moment was an act of treason. In need of answers that simple unmanned probes can't provide, a ship called the Theseus is built and packed with as much cutting-edge technology as its creators can muster for the purpose of carrying a manned expedition of exploration and First Contact. Coming to be known as the Firefall, it unequivocally demonstrates mankind is not alone in the universe: thousands of alien probes simultaneously burning up in the Earth's atmosphere in a perfect grid, seemingly scanning the entire planet, and generating a powerful radio signal sent somewhere to the outer reaches of the solar system. Troubles with the publisher made the novel hard to find in stores, despite having been nominated for a Hugo Award, so Watts put it out on his website for free.īlindsight begins soon after a global event in the near future has stunned the world. It's a dark and cerebral First Contact story that deals heavily with issues of sapience and what it means to be an "intelligent" species. ![]() Blindsight is a hard Science Fiction novel by Canadian author Peter Watts. ![]()
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