Title
Blindsight
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Two Months Since The Stars Fell...Two Months Since Sixtyfive Thousand Alien Objects Clenched Around The Earth Like A Luminous Fist, Screaming To The Heavens As The Atmosphere Burned Them To Ash. Two Months Since That Moment Of Brief, Bright Surveillance By Agents Unknown.Two Months Of Silence, While A World Holds Its Breath.Now Some Halfderelict 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 On An Intelligence With Motives Unknown, Maybe Unknowable? Who Do You Send To Meet The Alien When The Alien Doesn'T Want To Meet?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 Xrays And Tastes Ultrasound, So Compromised By Grafts And Splices He No Longer Feels His Own Flesh. You Send A Pacifist Warrior In The Faint Hope She Won'T Be Needed, And The Fainter One She'Ll Do Any Good If She Is. 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 Synthesistan Informational Topologist With Half His Mind Goneas An Interface Between Here And There, A Conduit Through Which The Dead Center Might Hope To Understand The Bleeding Edge.You Send Them All To The Edge Of Interstellar Space, Praying You Can Trust Such Freaks And Retrofits With The Fate Of A World. You Fear They May Be More Alien Than The Thing They'Ve Been Sent To Find.But You'D Give Anything For That To Be True, If You Only Knew What Was Waiting For Them...
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What is the main theme of 'Blindsight'? A: 'Blindsight' explores themes of communication, consciousness, and the nature of intelligence, particularly in the context of human and alien encounters.
- Q: Who is the author of 'Blindsight'? A: 'Blindsight' is written by Peter Watts, a well-known science fiction author recognized for his thought-provoking narratives.
- Q: What is the publication date of 'Blindsight'? A: 'Blindsight' was published on October 3, 2006.
- Q: How many pages does 'Blindsight' have? A: 'Blindsight' contains 384 pages.
- Q: What is the binding type of this book? A: 'Blindsight' is available in hardcover binding.
- Q: What condition is the used book in? A: 'Blindsight' is listed as a used book in good condition, indicating it has been previously owned but well maintained.
- Q: What genre does 'Blindsight' belong to? A: 'Blindsight' falls under the contemporary science fiction genre.
- Q: Is there a specific edition of 'Blindsight'? A: 'Blindsight' is available in its first edition.
- Q: What makes 'Blindsight' unique compared to other science fiction novels? A: 'Blindsight' is notable for its complex characters, especially a linguist with multiple personalities and a genetically resurrected predator, which challenges traditional notions of intelligence and communication.
- Q: Can 'Blindsight' be read as a standalone book? A: 'Blindsight' can be read independently, as it presents a self-contained narrative, although readers may appreciate the author's broader thematic explorations in other works.