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| Title | : | Blindsight (Firefall #1) |
| Author | : | Peter Watts |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | October 3rd 2006 by Tor Books |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Horror |
Peter Watts
Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.01 | 24879 Users | 2238 Reviews
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It's been two months 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 to 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 to machinery 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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| Original Title: | Blindsight |
| ISBN: | 0765312182 (ISBN13: 9780765312181) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm |
| Series: | Firefall #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2009), Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2007), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2007) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Traduction (2009), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2010), Tähtivaeltaja Award (2014), Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (2007), Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Translated Long Story (2014) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Blindsight (Firefall #1)
Ratings: 4.01 From 24879 Users | 2238 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Blindsight (Firefall #1)
This is a very dense book, packed with ideas. Although Watts mentions he's a biologist by training, you wouldn't know it, between all the astronomical events, the neurological side effects of radiation and methane exposure, and the philosophy of consciousness, it feels like half a college curriculum in here. It also is not an easy book. I ended up waiting to finish it on a free day, where the book and I could spend as much time as we needed. In this way, it reminded me a great deal of Miéville'sBR with Pizza, spaghetti, mandolino, Luciano Pavarotti and you can't even sing who happens to be a way quicker reader than ole Twerk.I learned an awful lot of new words while going through this book, mostly because I found myself being forced to in order to even follow its most basic level of dialogue. Hands up, you bastids, who knows what "malapropism" means? Ha! Gotcha. I do now, but that's because I googled that shit along with heaps of funny words that I have now forgotten. In the really
I'm still having a hard time figuring out what I think about this book. I don't believe that it is well written, but I also don't believe that it is a bad book. Let's start with the first one. I've had a brief note up here for a while about this book that pretty much defines why I don't think it's well written. Take a look at this quote:"There have always been those tasked with the rotation of informational topologies, but throughout most of history they had little to do with increasing its
I spent a majority of this book being lost. Not so lost in the ludicrous amounts of science jargon as I was confused by the "who/what is this?" Though the author sacrifices story and pacing at every convenience to flex his brain and show off all the cutting edge science theory he reviewed to prepare for writing this, my main bitch is simply not being able to follow even basic conversations held between characters. Every character/space ship/astral body in this book has a name, and possibly an
This is not an easy-reading book. It is complex, uses realistic technical jargon, and some rather esoteric psychological concepts. I enjoyed this book because of the wide range of interesting concepts that Peter Watts introduces in the story. The aspect of blindsight--the ability to sense one's environment without conscious awareness--is central to the story. Sometimes the human characters are subject to blindsight, but more importantly, the aliens they investigate act completely in blindsight.
This is not an easy read. The book is a hard science fiction with a lot of ideas, maybe too much for some people that has no special interest in one or two of the science that mentioned in this book. It sure gave me some things to check in internet, like blindsight (it is a real life phenomena), and other science stuff appeared in this book. This book is also discuss about behavioral and consciousness, oh just read other reviews for details, I am not good discussing heavy subjects.My only
You know you're in for trouble when the dedication of the book says:"If we're not in pain, we're not alive."One of the quotes before the novel starts is:"you will die like a dog for no good reason"And the quote that starts the first chapter is one by Ted Bundy!But still, it's a sci-fi book about consciousness...how could I not love it?-----------------------------------------I've always loved Science Fiction, and not just because books about the future are inherently cool. The reason I've always
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