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Blindsight

9780765319647

TOR
Available: 03/04/08
5.61 x 8.25 · 384 pages
9780765319647
CDN $24.99 · pb

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Peter Watts

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 thatto be true, if you knew what was waiting for them. . . .
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Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-disease survivor and convicted felon whose novels - despite an unhealthy focus on space vampires - have become required texts for university courses ranging from Philosophy to Neuropsychology.

His work is available in 21 languages, has appeared in over 350 best-of-year anthologies, and been nominated for over 50 awards in a dozen countries. His (somewhat shorter) list of 20 actual wins includes the Hugo, the Shirley Jackson, and the Seiun.

Peter is the author of the Rifters novels ( Starfish, Maelstrom ) and the Firefall series ( Blindsight, Echopraxia ).