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Blindsight (Firefall) Kindle Edition

by Peter Watts (Author)

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Blindsight is the Hugo Award–nominated novel by Peter Watts, "a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive" (The Globe and Mail).

Two months have past 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 should we 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 with machinery that 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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File Size: 3459 KB
Print Length: 396 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (October 3, 2006)
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B003K15EKM
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- #506 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > First Contact

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Original and Thought-Provoking Hard Science Fiction

ByBen Hargroveon January 5, 2016

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Blindsight is a wonderfully imaginative and cerebral story of First Contact. This is the first book I have read by Peter Watts and I'm disappointed in myself that it took me this long to discover a sci-fi author of this caliber. The story is filled with Big Ideas but I wouldn't be dissuaded by other reviewers suggesting the plotting is thin or too slow. The mystery of the alien object that the narrator and his fellow crew of (mostly) post-humans investigate is quite compelling and it only get's more fascinating as the details are revealed. There is certainly a philosophical element to this book, and a touch of deep space horror as well (though it never overwhelms). I highly recommend Blindsight to the hard sci-fi fan looking for something profoundly original and thought-provoking.

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Blindsight is the movie he'll direct to better 2001: A Space Odyssey

ByRobert Fishon October 23, 2014

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First off, I don't write reviews, as I'm a writer (ok, 21st Century "Content Developer"), so you know, what do *you* do in your spare time -- more of what you already do all day, before you come home to your twin 11-year olds who have just come home from Sixth Grade with more questions about their writing assignments... However, as I've told the twins over and over again, there are rules, exceptions to those rules -- which save you from doing homework -- and then there are those rare exceptions which make new rules.

Blindsight is that rare exception that's written in a sea of the very difficult to understand, yet floats right there waiting for you to finally grasp it's mind-numbing, deer-in-the-lights, genius. If Stanley Kubrick ever comes back (as a post-human bicameral with the tastes of a vampire?), Blindsight is the movie he'll direct to better 2001: A Space Odyssey.

By the way, I love reading hardback novels. I have a library of them. There's something about holding, reading, and re-reading a hardback novel which you treasure, and replay over and over in your mind's eye. The "movie" your mind plays when reading Blindsight captures you in a way most novels never approach. Even now, I can see the utter alien landscape and gasping terror when the crew enter Rorschach in deep space. In Alien, you can at least identify with the lurking acid-drooling monster as your mind screams bloody-murder at you. In our own backyard -- in the Outer Solar System -- there's no one to hold your hand when your mind becomes someone or something else and joins in the conversation....

A delicious, ferocious, terrifying, and real odyssey waiting to happen when something finally hears what we've been broadcasting to the rest of the galaxy since the advent of radio and television...

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Awesome space opera with great psychology.

ByMjchon September 23, 2016

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Peter Watts weaves another amazing tale of the human condition. I love the way he writes clearly, but the psychology is such that you are not really sure of what happened, until you think about the narrative and the structure and your own experience in reality. I am always left with the feeling that more has transpired than I initially recognize.
I love Peter Watts and his imagination. Would highly recommend this book to anyone who love Hard Sci-fi and explorations of reality and the inner spark.

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Creative and challenging read, but won't give you any warm fuzzies

ByTLBon March 7, 2016

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A creative book full of interesting ideas. However, writing is highly user-unfriendly -- key pieces of information in character and story development emerge in a backwards way, leaving the reader guessing, backtracking, and generally confused. Perhaps this is a sophisticated writing device, but I just found it irritating and detracting from what in many ways is a great hard SF read. The characters are complex and interesting once one can figure out their unique and complex nature, but relationships among characters seem grim, nihilistic, and ill-fated. Not a feel good book, by any means.

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thought provoking

BySyon March 6, 2012

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I consume science fiction books at an alarming rate, and most of them are so inconsequential that I forget what they were about the day after I finish them. When I was done reading this book, I went right back to the beginning and re-read it a second time. Moreover, the book made me go looking for material by Thomas Metzinger, the philosopher of consciousness that inspired much of Peter Watt's concepts in the book. In fact, I encourage anybody to look into it, not only will it blow your mind, but it will explain much of the book. The reason I say this is to give you an idea that this is definitely not your average sci fi book.
I won't get into the plot, which has been eloquently explained by others. Compared to other sci fi books, this one may seem slow, not much happens in terms of action, and much of the book is dedicated to discussing the philosophy of consciousness and self awareness. So if you have the attention span of the average Twitter user, this book will probably not appeal to you. Also the author is a scientist, and he makes ample use of scientific concepts and terms that may be incomprehensible to the non scientific reader. I personally would encourage people to look them up and learn about them, but if you just read books for quick and easy entertainment, this book is probably not for you.
So what does this book have going for it? An ensemble of very original characters for a start. Truly alien aliens, which are probably the hardest thing to get right in science fiction. And mind blowing concepts on which I guarantee you'll ruminate for weeks.
I would have given the book five stars if the story wasn't a bit hard to follow. In his attempt to give the readers credit for their intelligence by not spoon feeding them and spelling everything out, the story can get a little murky and leave you wondering what exactly happened. I feel the author could do a bit better in this respect.

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I didn't find this a particularly fun read, however it is hugely impressive with ideas ...

Dark sf concerning first contact. I didn't find this a particularly fun read, however it is hugely impressive with ideas I had not encountered in other sf novels.

Published 14 days ago by Matt Jorgensen

Blows your mind. A little hard to read for ...

Blows your mind. A little hard to read for non-science people but most of the hard science is not relevant to the story anyway.Read more

Published 20 days ago by Mark Twain

Boring Space Vamires

How is possible to make space vampires boring? Well, Watts manages to do so. Overwrought prose, pointless characters, and gaping plot holes.

Published 23 days ago by Steven

Not my cup of tea

Good writing tells its story through characters you love or hate, through dialogue, through actions taken. Lofty ideals come simply.Read more

Published 28 days ago by Thomas Goodman

Physical mutilation, mutiny, and murder

When you assemble a team of elite specialists to go on humanity's most important mission of all time, who do you recruit?Read more

Published 1 month ago by J. Blattman

The first novel I've enjoyed in a good while

It’s been a while since I read a book that I actually enjoyed. There is always something absolutely abhorrent that destroys a narrative for me. Blindsight? Oh no!Read more

Published 1 month ago by Rico Hall

One of most thought provoking, intelligently written works of fiction I've read in half a decade

This is no cake read. It isn't a *fun* read. This novel is a brilliant, vivid, thought-provoking work of speculative fiction that takes sci-fi and mashes in deep philosophical...Read more

Published 1 month ago by Julie

Just... no.

I *may* have written one other review. Maybe. But I felt that in the case of Blindsight, I had to get some things off my chest.Read more

Published 2 months ago by Sam

Great Read

Took about 4 days. Super enjoyable, didn't quite end how I figured. Worth checking out. Id its top 20 scifi books I've read.

Published 3 months ago by Derek Guyton

Five Stars

Very nice and unusual read.

Published 3 months ago by Stanislav T.

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