num_pages: 384
description: Two months since the stars fell...Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath.Now 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 en route.So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet?You 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, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist--an informational topologist with half his mind gone--as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits 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 only knew what was waiting for them...
language: English
title: Blindsight
titlecomplete: Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
genres: Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Speculative Fiction, Space
ratings_count: 39500
series: Firefall
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Traduction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long-Form Work in English, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Story
publisher: Tor Books