![]() ![]() I’ve been asking for science fiction with more ideas. Can they destroy the alien artifact? Get word of what they’ve found back to Earth? Quickly they find themselves under a terrifying counterattack. They board the artifact and take “samples” of the alien life forms, bring them back to Theseus and try to analyze their biology, intelligence and use of language. ![]() The ship’s AI bypasses the comet and follows the signal to the Oort Cloud, where the crew wakes from hibernation to find a gas giant too small to ignite into a star, orbited by some massive artifact under construction. There are other crew in ship’s storage in case of loss. They include a super-intelligent vampire recreated by paleogenetics, a linguist with multiple personalities, and a combat specialist, a biologist and a synthesist augmented with electronic implants. Earth sends out fresh probes, then mounts an expedition, sending a live crew of transhumans on the ship Theseus to investigate. Then an old space probe picks up a signal from a distant comet. In 2082 a mysterious array circles the Earth and flashes, seemingly taking readings of some kind. It is seriously hard SF and was a finalist for the Hugo Award in 2007. It was released by Tor in October 2006 and runs 294 pages. Blindsight is Book #1 of the Firefall Series. I enjoyed The Freeze Frame Revolution, so I thought I’d try a couple of Watt’s older novels. ![]()
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