{"product_id":"9781250237484","title":"Blindsight","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Watts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo months since the stars fell...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo months of silence, while a world held its breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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 \u003ci\u003een route\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou 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 \u003ci\u003evampire\u003c\/i\u003e, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a \u003ci\u003esynthesist\u003c\/i\u003e—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between \u003ci\u003ehere \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.” —\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bear\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eKaren Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course.” —\u003ci\u003eKarl Schroeder\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eStealing Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good. Peter Watts' aliens are . . . something new and infinitely more disturbing, forcing us to confront unpalatable possibilities about the nature of consciousness.” —\u003ci\u003eCharles Stross\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Delirium Brief\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And unlike many books it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development (I like the idea of some disabilities becoming advantages here) and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness (understanding what action preceding though actually means).” —\u003ci\u003eNeal Asher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Samuel R. Delany, Greg Egan and Vernor Vinge had collaborated to update Algis Budrys's classic \u003ci\u003eRogue Moon \u003c\/i\u003efor the new millennium, they might have produced a novel as powerful and as uniquely beautiful as \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Spider Robinson,\u003ci\u003e co-author of Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated Hugo Award - Nominee (2007), Long-listed John W. Campbell Memorial Award - Third Place (2007)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250237484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40712970010830,"sku":"9781250237484","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_21bd0553-2068-4aa5-82b8-057c8f9f752e.jpg?v=1640837942","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250237484","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}