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.
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