具体描述
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 you do send to meet the alien
when the alien doesn't want to meet?
You send a linguist with multiple personalities carved surgically into her brain. You send
a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultra-
sound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You
send a pacifist warrior whose career-defining moment was an act of treason. 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...
作者简介
Peter Watts lives in Toronto, Canada.
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读后感
本书评又名《818吸血鬼与船长之间不可告人的关系》 有几个问题让我困惑，结尾处船长的出现意味着什么，另外吸血鬼本身是否有自主意识？这两个问题是否是同一个问题？让我们先放在一边，从头说起。 萨拉斯第是飞船的指挥官，但这是一份费力不讨好的活儿。萨拉斯第与船员的隔阂，...
评分以下是小说的后记选段。 原文在作者的官网处可下载。（http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Blindsight_Endnotes.pdf） 这个后记篇幅不短，其实已经相当于一篇论文的Reference，底下的脚注也是密密麻麻。用作者的话说，这篇后记志在“让你相信我并非异想天开，又或...
评分想象一下,在地球几光年之外,你碰到了比人类更高的智慧存在,在不得不进行的一番较量后,你发现了人类的致命弱点竟是一直被人类引以自喜和反复赞颂的———人类进化出的自我意识————你认为它赋予了我们自由意志,让你成为了万物之灵。 想象一下,当你做一个有意识的选择,比如下...
评分用户评价
core setting very scientific and exciting, but the story itself is not interesting, and the stupid part of vampire should be deleted.
评分设定很有新意，故事偏无趣。
评分[SFWT]彼得·沃茨全方位坚硬。论文感语言，世界观在前故事在后，如星点般闪耀的硬核，击垮心理学防线。2011年当头一棒。
评分Really remarkable - one of the best SF books I've read in some time.
评分还不错。小说抹黑自由意志，但其中反自由意志的论述又不是特别让人信服。
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