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2011 Book Review #44: Blindsight
May. 9th, 2011 12:40 pmTitle: Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Genre: Hard SF
Thingummies: 4.5
Synopsis: Humanity was sliding into a virtual reality apathy when one day, out of the blue, alien devices took our picture. All of us. At the same time. Now there's something building on the edge of the solar system and it's talking to someone else and not to us. The best team we can send is so damaged as to barely seem human--from the linguist who deliberately induced multiple personalities to the biologists who gave up their biological sense to graft on more tools to the half-brained narrator who has spent his life trying and failing to teach himself to be human. They're commanded by a sociopathic predator on a ship with its own agenda, and they're about to find out that humanity is the evolutionary pinnacle of a very tiny island. Which didn't work out so well for the dodo.
Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )
Author: Peter Watts
Genre: Hard SF
Thingummies: 4.5
Synopsis: Humanity was sliding into a virtual reality apathy when one day, out of the blue, alien devices took our picture. All of us. At the same time. Now there's something building on the edge of the solar system and it's talking to someone else and not to us. The best team we can send is so damaged as to barely seem human--from the linguist who deliberately induced multiple personalities to the biologists who gave up their biological sense to graft on more tools to the half-brained narrator who has spent his life trying and failing to teach himself to be human. They're commanded by a sociopathic predator on a ship with its own agenda, and they're about to find out that humanity is the evolutionary pinnacle of a very tiny island. Which didn't work out so well for the dodo.
Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )
