Blindsight

Name: Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts

Peter Watts · 2006

In 2082 thousands of alien probes burn up over Earth, and a signal is traced to the solar system's edge. Siri Keeton, missing half his brain since childhood, flies out to observe the crew sent to answer it, under a resurrected vampire's command. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

The case against

on Siri Keeton
“His surgery has rendered him rather impersonal and unlikable”
Matt Denault · Boomtron, 2018
on the Rorschach forays
“Everything is so disjointed; it becomes difficult to follow what’s going on.”
two stars · a book blog
on the lectures
“it’s mostly a series of lectures on the nature of consciousness”
a book blog
on the character names
“a frustrating habit of referring to the same character with several different names or labels”
a book blog