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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 [2] and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [4] and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...
Blindsight. "The Island" "The Things" References. External links. Peter Watts (author) Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958 [1]) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in 1991 from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. [3] .
3 ott 2006 · Blindsight, to be fair, is harder SF than the aforementioned novels. Watts restricts himself to the near-future (2088 or so?) and to the confines of our solar system. Some of the technology, such as the telematter-driven Theseus or the cyborgs Szpindel and Cunningham or the vampire (I’ll spend some time on him later) seem more out there and fantastical.
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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.
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...
Peter Watts. Macmillan, Oct 3, 2006 - Fiction - 384 pages. Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight. Two...
