Blindsight

Synopsis

Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation (where it is published by Tokyo Sogensha) and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The story follows a crew of astronauts sent to investigate a trans-Neptunian comet dubbed "Burns-Caulfield" that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology. Blindsight is available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Its sequel (or "sidequel"), Echopraxia, came out in 2014.

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Details

Type

Book

Release date

October 3, 2006

Genres

vampire fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, metaphysical science fiction

Created by

Peter Watts

Countries

Canada