Blindsight

Peter Watts
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Blindsight

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9/21/2016
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This was my first Peter Watts. It took me forever to finish it. It's not that it was slow moving; it just never grabbed me. It's original and unorthodox - a first-contact science fiction novel with a vampire. Another character had multiple personalities, and was called The Gang. Our narrator had had his brain halves severed.

The book involves concepts such as non-sentient intelligence, a very interesting idea. Watts definitely has a creative mind. This story, though, was difficult to follow. I wonder how somebody like Asimov would have written it - much differently, I'd wager. I'll probably read more Watts eventually, but having read this book, (surprisingly, to me) doesn't push me in that direction.

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