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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held 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 with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? 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. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. 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. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied… (altro)
Bel libro di hard -SF, su un primo contatto dove gli alieni sono finalmente ALIENI. E le cose sono difficili: l'astronave è claustrofobica e lavora al limite delle proprie possibilità, in un ambiente ostile, in una situazione dove i dubbi sono molto di più delle certezze. Non farsi fuorviare dal fatto che il comandante sia un "vampiro": vampiri e fantasy non c'entrano nulla. Inoltre l'ebook in formato epub si scarica gratis e liberamente da Feedbooks. ( )
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Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. - Ted Bundy
This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.
– Philip Gourevitch
You will die like a dog for no good reason.
– Ernest Hemingway
Dedica
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For Lisa If we're not in pain, we're not alive.
Incipit
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It didn't start out here.
Citazioni
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Les animaux vivant en meute mettent toujours en pièces les plus faibles d'entre eux. Tous les enfants le savent d'instinct.
On oubliait facilement l'IA quantique au cœur de notre vaisseau. Elle restait discrètement fondue dans le décor, nous nourrissant, nous transportant, imprégnant notre existence comme un dieu discret, mais tout comme Dieu, elle ne prenait jamais nos appels.
Il est beaucoup plus facile de vivre en se sachant vandale que meurtrier.
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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held 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 with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? 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. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. 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. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied
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Non farsi fuorviare dal fatto che il comandante sia un "vampiro": vampiri e fantasy non c'entrano nulla.
Inoltre l'ebook in formato epub si scarica gratis e liberamente da Feedbooks. (