Blindsight by Peter Watts was the 26th official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.
Reading period: Apr 13, 2011 - May 2, 2011
How/Why was this book chosen:
Veronica and Tom picked it.
Sword & Laser Goodreads Group Discussion of Blindsight
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Blindsight by Peter Watts[]
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder, and a biologist so spliced to machinery he can't feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find - but you'd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.