Peter Watts · 2006 · Novel
Setting: near future (2082)
Series: Blindsight / Firefall — #1
In the late 21st century, after thousands of alien probes photograph every square meter of Earth and vanish, a crew of heavily modified specialists is sent aboard the ship Theseus to investigate the signal's source beyond the Kuiper Belt. Led by a resurrected vampire and narrated by a man who lost half his brain to surgery, the mission discovers Rorschach, a massive alien structure orbiting a rogue gas giant. Its inhabitants, the scramblers, prove supremely intelligent yet apparently non-conscious, forcing the crew to confront the possibility that sentience is an evolutionary dead end rather than the pinnacle of cognition.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: VampiresArtifical HibernationFictionScience FictionHuman-alien encountersLife on other planetsNeurologyLinguistsFiction, science fiction, general
isfdb_id: 186521
openlibrary_id: OL8514692W
wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
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