The book is like a roller coaster…you get started, feel a little doubt as the ride begins, relax into the excitement of the curves and turns, and when you get out of the ride - think you might want to try it again because you’re not sure just what you just experienced (yes, a run-on sentence. There is a part of me, though, that still feels like I missed something in the translation.

The difference is that after awhile, the scene-setting and jargon leech away into story - and then the science gets handed to you in mostly bite-size chunks. It’s also huge.īlindsight felt almost like wading through GCBC again. Gary Taubes‘s non-fiction opus Good Calories, Bad Calories took me ages, and not just because it quotes reams of medical jargon and scientific experiments. I can read science-y books, it just takes me forever.

That said, while I’m biased towards Blindsight and enjoy a good Space Opera, it’s also in the realm of Hard Science Fiction. If you ever need to crash again, the current house is in somewhat better order). (If you’re reading this, Peter, I’m very sorry for the state of that house/room.

We learned about him through a mutual friend, and hosted him at our home when he needed a bed to sleep in on a layover long, long ago. 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 knew what was waiting for them.Ī little fair warning here – I’m predisposed to like Blindsight by Peter Watts. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder, and a biologist so spliced to machinery he can't feel his own flesh. Something talks out there: but not to us. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. Genres: Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Horror, First Contact Published by Tor Books on October 3, 2006

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