Brillantly dark SF novel of a First Contact gone wrong

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	• Blindsight Peter Watts Tor Books, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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Sci Fi Materpiece

I've read a lot of science fiction. Old, new, good, bad. I'm something of a snob. Trust me that this is absolutely one of the best. I finished this book overwhelmed, reeling. The mood, the pacing, the writing, the ideas: all top notch. Its in my top five of all time. If you have any interest in "hard" science fiction, just get it.

Brillantly dark SF novel of a First Contact gone wrong

Dark, vivid, cold as ice, frighteningly brilliant - this is the book that's been lying in wait under my bed to ooze up and touch me in the middle of the night. Relentlessly intelligent, thoughtful, well-written SF such as this is truly a rarety - and Watts' scientific meticulousness makes the the story that much more chilling and real.

This is the first Watts book I've read, I haven't yet gotten hold of his Rifters trilogy - but I'm ordering that now.

With a central premise that is truly amazing, fiercely drawn characters, and aliens that are truly, utterly, alien (but completely plausible), this novel has been on my mind daily since completing it two months ago.

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The Hugo Award?nominated novel by ?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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