Coming to be known as the Firefall, it unequivocally demonstrates mankind is not alone in the universe: thousands of alien probes simultaneously burning up in the Earth's atmosphere in a perfect grid, seemingly scanning the entire planet, and generating a powerful radio signal sent somewhere to the outer reaches of the solar system. Troubles with the publisher made the novel hard to find in stores, despite having been nominated for a Hugo Award, so Watts put it out on his website for free.īlindsight begins soon after a global event in the near future has stunned the world. It's a dark and cerebral First Contact story that deals heavily with issues of sapience and what it means to be an "intelligent" species. Blindsight is a hard Science Fiction novel by Canadian author Peter Watts.
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