01734cam a2200277 4500 355122085 TxAuBib 20180926120000.0 060217s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006005917 9780765319647 17.99 0765319640 17.99 TxAuBib Watts, Peter, 1949- Blindsight [BOOK] / Peter Watts. New York : Tor, 2006. 384 pages ; 22 cm. Firefall ; 1 "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". Includes bibliographical references. Two months have past 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 should we 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 with machinery that 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. . . . 20180926. Life on other planets Fiction. Science fiction. Firefall ; 1.