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...
Peter Watts lives in Toronto, Canada.
http://www.rifters.com/index.htm
几年以来读过最喜欢的小说之一。我已经开启了安利模式。
评分好多想法跟我一样啊,伤感!
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。
评分神作……
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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