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“A magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.” ―Elizabeth Bear, author of Karen Memory

“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course.” ―
Karl Schroeder, author of Stealing Worlds

“A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good. Peter Watts' aliens are . . . something new and infinitely more disturbing, forcing us to confront unpalatable possibilities about the nature of consciousness.” ―
Charles Stross, author of The Delirium Brief

Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And unlike many books it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development (I like the idea of some disabilities becoming advantages here) and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness (understanding what action preceding though actually means).” ―Neal Asher

“If Samuel R. Delany, Greg Egan and Vernor Vinge had collaborated to update Algis Budrys's classic
Rogue Moon for the new millennium, they might have produced a novel as powerful and as uniquely beautiful as Blindsight.” ―Spider Robinson, co-author of Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson

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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).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books; Reprint edition (April 21 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250237483
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250237484
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 318 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.72 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm
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