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Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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His novel Blindsight, released in October 2006, was nominated for a Hugo Award. The novel was described by Charles Stross : "Imagine a neurobiology-obsessed version of Greg Egan writing a first contact with aliens story from the point of view of a zombie posthuman crewman aboard a starship captained by a vampire, with not dying as ...
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- Caitlin Sweet (August 2011–present)
3 ott 2006 · Firefall #1. Blindsight. Peter Watts. 4.01. 43,160 ratings4,162 reviews. 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.
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Echopraxia is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts. [1] It is a "sidequel" to his 2006 novel, Blindsight, and the two novels make up the Firefall series. Echopraxia follows the story of a biologist who gets caught up in a voyage into the heart of the Solar System among members of a transcendentalist monastic ...
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- Tor Books
6 ott 2023 · Watts is best known for his 2006 novel Blindsight, about a crew of augmented humans who are sent to intercept an alien vessel. Science fiction author Sam J. Miller says that Blindsight...
Prologue "Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream." —Ted Bundy It didn't start out here. Not with the scramblers or Rorschach, not with Big Ben or Theseus or the vampires.
The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology. Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.
