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Blindsight

By: Peter Watts
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
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Set in 2082, Peter Watts' Blindsight is fast-moving, hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold.

After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.

©2006 Peter Watts (P)2008 Recorded Books LLC Fantasy First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Emotionally Gripping
Thought-provoking Concepts • Unique Alien Perspective • Excellent Character Differentiation • Complex Philosophical Themes

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This is a terrific exploration of intelligence/sentience, or what humankind understands intelligence to be, and the potentiality of meeting/becoming aliens that exist in a manner inconceivable to us.

The concepts are DEEP. Are we really human if we're hitched to computers. Can our brains hold more than one functional personality? Are there aliens so smart and fast that to them we'd look like imbeciles? If there are aliens, what are the chances that we'd ever find them, ever understand them, ever "know" them?

The vampire component is sort of beside the point - it's just one more alien (meaning foreign to human) in a book that is exploring the nature of being alien. (Even those characters that are human are explored for their "alien" characteristics).

Don't read this if you're expecting action (there is little action) or if you're not in the mood to explore the nature of alien-ness because you'll be disappointed. That being said - the narration is very good and the story is engaging and very hard to put down once you get started.

(Though I'm not making any promises that it makes sense in the end... I'm still not sure I understand.)

I don't claim to understand it...

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I can't believe I just wasted that much time. it's as if the writer is so smart that his writing jumped around. the narrator was fine. it was the sloppy cohesiveness.

good luck.

I won't give it one star. but ...

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If you have some understanding of human neurophysiology this is a great story. That said, there is quite a bit of technical jargon. This is not your average "humans meet aliens" space opera. Instead it's an examination of the nature of consciousness and how humans would be able to understand beings that have a totally different way of existing and communicating.
The reader was adequate, but his tendency to have very similar voices for all the characters sometimes left me confused as to who was speaking and when transitions were happening.

Challenging story

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The story is great. A little too verbose but overall thought provoking. The narrator is monotone and puts me to sleep. He sounds as if he is recording in a library trying not to disturb the other patrons.

Narrator Is Awful

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I’m tearful at the moment. Absolutely gutted and in love. What a phenomenal story. It mixed all of my favorite ideas; Do androids dream of electric sheep, Prometheus, ALIEN, cyberpunk universe. It’s perfect. i’m blown away. please read and read again!!!

How can i even put my feelings to words?!!!

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