{"product_id":"blindsight","title":"Blindsight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo months since the stars fell...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo months of silence, while a world held its breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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 \u003ci\u003een route\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou 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. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called \u003ci\u003evampire\u003c\/i\u003e, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a \u003ci\u003esynthesist\u003c\/i\u003e—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between \u003ci\u003ehere \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Watts (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53949758112112,"sku":"9781250237484","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/0463\/8832\/files\/3289773482633.jpg?v=1782535739","url":"https:\/\/papervalebooks.com\/products\/blindsight","provider":"Papervale Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}