Blindsight

Name: Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts

by Peter Watts

Hard SF thriller about first contact with alien superintelligence and consciousness

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Peter Watts

Peter Watts is a Canadian marine biologist and science fiction author known for his relentlessly bleak and scientifically rigorous novels. Blindsight is widely considered one of the best hard SF novels of the twenty-first century for its disturbing examination of consciousness and first contact. His work suggests that intelligence and consciousness may be evolutionary dead ends.

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