![]() ![]() They’ve taken our picture and sent the film to a processing lab out at the edge of the solar system where mankind has never visited. Tens of thousands of alien satellites have appeared in orbit above the Earth. The pinnacle of engineering, manufactured in a mad scramble and sent blasting off to the Kuiper Belt at a hellfire burn before the paint is even dry on the blast doors. The Theseus is the most powerful spacecraft ever built by mankind. Blindsightīlindsight is a book about a ship. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence flexible, intelligent, even technological - but no other circuitry monitors it. Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. But, most importantly, we’re talking about it because it’s the best damn first contact story of the decade. Because it represents a fresh voice in science fiction and a bold experiment in publishing. ![]() So why are we talking about it now? Because the story of Blindsight (and the story of its author, Peter Watts) is ongoing. ![]()
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