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| Title | : | Blindsight (Firefall #1) |
| Author | : | Peter Watts |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2006 by Tor Books |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Horror |
Peter Watts
Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.01 | 24879 Users | 2238 Reviews
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It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. 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. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. 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.
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| Original Title: | Blindsight |
| ISBN: | 0765312182 (ISBN13: 9780765312181) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm |
| Series: | Firefall #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2009), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2007), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2007) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Traduction (2009), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2010), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2014), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (2007), Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Translated Long Story (2014) |
Rating Regarding Books Blindsight (Firefall #1)
Ratings: 4.01 From 24879 Users | 2238 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books Blindsight (Firefall #1)
This is not an easy-reading book. It is complex, uses realistic technical jargon, and some rather esoteric psychological concepts. I enjoyed this book because of the wide range of interesting concepts that Peter Watts introduces in the story. The aspect of blindsight--the ability to sense one's environment without conscious awareness--is central to the story. Sometimes the human characters are subject to blindsight, but more importantly, the aliens they investigate act completely in blindsight."How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of conciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." -Thomas HuxleyBlindsight is a very imperfect creation. It sputters and starts, it rears it's head, looks around, drops a poop on your lawn and asks you to just figure it out in your spare time please. I'm going to piggy back a little bit on some of the great reviews I just read (especially
You know you're in for trouble when the dedication of the book says:"If we're not in pain, we're not alive."One of the quotes before the novel starts is:"you will die like a dog for no good reason"And the quote that starts the first chapter is one by Ted Bundy!But still, it's a sci-fi book about consciousness...how could I not love it?-----------------------------------------I've always loved Science Fiction, and not just because books about the future are inherently cool. The reason I've always
A real clever and thought provoking read. Deals with a tonne od subjects, consciousness, identity, philosophy, gender, death way too many topics to list. I loved the heavy science element and the characters. Its a first contact novel with a twist. I think the only negative for me, is that it occasionally got lost in its own cleverness which made some of the plot a little scattered or uneven to follow. Not one yo usually be obsessed with heavy scifi novels, but this is one the better ones i read
Blindsight, set almost entirely beyond the Oort cloud on the ship Theseus, tells a first contact story thats a mixture of philosophy, narrative confuscation (ala Wolfes Book of the New Sun), dystopia, and horror. It is crafted with 100% authentic, locally sourced, GMO/pesticide/herbicide-free science fiction-It has real actual science. Like powerful magnetic fields that induce Cotards syndrome. And references concepts like mitochondria and ATP and von Neumann machines. This is in contrast with
I'm still having a hard time figuring out what I think about this book. I don't believe that it is well written, but I also don't believe that it is a bad book. Let's start with the first one. I've had a brief note up here for a while about this book that pretty much defines why I don't think it's well written. Take a look at this quote:"There have always been those tasked with the rotation of informational topologies, but throughout most of history they had little to do with increasing its
Why do putatively brilliant scientists insist on explaining simple shit to one another? Their sole purpose appears to be strolling out at key intervals of the story and expounding on pop science. "Oh hi, did you know that according to Game Theory the most efficient cooperative strategy is reciprocal altruism?" Game theory may not be common knowledge, but it's hardly arcane either. The UK actually has a TV show built around it. Similar bleeding edge opinions on consciousness, neurology, and
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