Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n Two months since the stars fell…<\/p>\n Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.<\/p>\n Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath.<\/p>\n Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.<\/p>\n So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?<\/p>\n You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and the fainter one she’ll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist–an informational topologist with half his mind gone–as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.<\/p>\n You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.<\/p>\n But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…. First published October 3, 2006. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 384. #blindsight-ebook #blindsight-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 4.01 (based on 39108 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: blindsight.epub<\/em><\/p>\n