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Posted on 03-05-07 03:26 AM Link | Quote | ID: 10601


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NSNick's John Dies at the End post reminded me of another really great novel that's available online. Blindsight by Peter Watts is absolutely fantastic. If you like science fiction at all, especially hard sci fi, I highly recommend the book.

Link is here.

The novel is about first contact with an alien species, but the characters themselves are very alien. Each of them has brains so enhanced by cybernetics that sometimes you can barely call them human anymore -- the easiest character to identify purposefully had surgery done to give herself multiple personality disorder, and the main character is missing empathy and an entire half of his brain.

The writing is very thick, but in a good way. It takes a long time to read, not only because it's a long novel, but because it dispenses very heavy doses of science and deals with some really major concepts. Deep, heavy stuff like the nature of consciousness and intelligence.

I can't recommend it enough.

And I haven't found a single person to discuss the book with so one of you had better read it .

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Posted on 03-07-07 03:18 AM Link | Quote | ID: 11514


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Posted on 03-08-07 04:57 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12059


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Glad someone agrees.

You get through all of it? I feel like discussing with someone but I can't find anyone who's read the bloody thing .

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