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Peter Watts: Blindsight (2008, Tor Books)

Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around …

Thought-provoking read from the lips of the "jargonaut"

Really interesting regarding self-awareness, identity and cognition as well as evolution. Especially so towards the end. Also some real surprises and tensions. Some of the ideas were obscured by unnecessarily jargon-y language or long-winded descriptions of spaceship engineering that did not help me imagine the things described. Perhaps that is part of the idea when you let the ship "jargonaut" be the narrator.