Brains — cheat. This book is the first medical thriller series of Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Blindsight, however, required my full attention span, and I read it twice. Some (a lot) of this was far over my head but I can honestly say I've never read anything like it.Moments that deserved four stars scattered among moments that deserved book throwing. The aspect of blindsight--the ability to sense one's environment without conscious awareness--is central to the story. Talk about being alone in an uncaring reality. -Thomas Huxley....I absolutely tore through this book. Here is a list my further bitching that I'm not going to elaborate on:In order to expand my reading, I've been making an effort to put more hard scifi into my rotation, to get out of the "fluff rut" I've been in, riding books that are easy to consume but ultimately unsatisfactory. It is a completely original take on the first contact scenario blended with Watts' ability to portray multiple deep and complex characters. I'm curious to see how you will find the book when you finish...sadly I was less impressed with the (somewhat) recent sequel.All I know is that someone described it as far more “accessible”. And yes, this book will deservedly win this year’s Hugo, if the rumblings are right. I don't believe that it is well written, but I also don't believe that it is a bad book. Wow! Though the author sacrifices story and pacing at every convenience to flex his brain and show off all the cutting edge science theory he reviewed to prepare for writing this, my main bitch is simply not being able to follow even basic conversations held between characters. One of the nice things about having Goodreads to help me track my reading, what I’ve read and what I want to read, is that,"How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of conciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." Not one yo usually be obsessed with heavy scifi novels, but this is one the better ones i read.A real clever and thought provoking read. Not so lost in the ludicrous amounts of science jargon as I was confused by the "who/what is this?" This book is also discuss about behavioral and consciousness, oh just read other reviews for details, I am not good discussing heavy subjects.I'm still having a hard time figuring out what I think about this book. Disturbingly, as hallucinatory as most sections of this book are, Watts seemed to have scientific rational for most of it. The notes and references are worth price of entry alone.Yes, it is not quite as good as I’d been told, but orders of magnitude more brilliant than anyone had conveyed. does empathy help us in the long run, does the ability of humans to connect with each other truly offer anything besides constant discomfort and potential danger? I think the only negative for me, is that it occasionally got lost in its own cleverness which made some of the plot a little scattered or uneven to follow.

Also, Watts has given his own unique interpretation of multiple personality disorder; in this case an individual hosting deliberately engineered personas.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Top subscription boxes – right to your door,© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. There are more parallels than this but I won't risk too many spoilers by being more specific.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2012.Having mostly enjoyed my first Peter Watts toe-in-the-water (Starfish, the first in the Rifters Trilogy), it was definitely worth reading another. This was a tough one. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.A grieving woman, five light-years from home.

Imagine you are nothing at all. Please try again.There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. how, and why? BLINDSIGHT is a typical Robin Cook thriller, interesting and full of suspense. I agree. Take a look at this quote:Crank up some Xenakis and Penderecki and abandon hope all ye who enter here. How do you take a book whose central premise seems to be that the development of self-awareness in human evolution was a wrong turn that wasn't meant to happen at all? I loved the heavy science element and the characters.