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7/10 : (AUDIO) This is hard scifi story that was nominated for the Hugo in 2006. The story follows a ship headed out to the Oort Cloud to investigate an alien prescience. The crew are transhumans, able to be loaded into grown bodies, giving them advantages in deep space. The commander is a genetically reincarnated vampire (because, why not), and the main character is one who, to correct his early childhood epilepsy had half his brain removed. The book deals a lot with what it means to be human and what it means to be sentient. I didn't love it, but it was a good read. It was good, finished far too suddendly, it reminded me a lot of Destination Void by Herbert, all in all a not that bad book Hands down the best science fiction novel I have read in years. Hard Science Fiction novel that puts a very disturbing spin on the First Contact scenario. Good hard sci-fi adventure story. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This is one of those rare books I may try to read again someday, but I doubt I'll go on to the sequel. Some of Watts' writing is so fantastic that it alone is worth the ride here, and there were scenes/discussions/themes that truly drew me in, but on the whole, I'm left with more of a general feeling for the novel than a true understanding of what I just read, and reading the book was a bit more work than pleasure. (