Blindsight

Paperback, 384 pages

Published April 21, 2020 by Tor Trade.

ISBN:
978-1-250-23748-4
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Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five 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 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 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, …

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Picked this up impulsively after a friend's recommendation. Delightfully creative hard sci-fi narrative with a menacing antagonist and a cast of very diverse characters. I can't say Watts was able to access the emotional content of his protagonist (tricky challenge) but overall I was swept away by the sheer lunacy of the conceit and the fantastic ideas underlying the story.

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