vile_reads reviewed Blindsight by Peter Watts
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"
4 stars
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.
