They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. And you send a synthesist-an informational topologist with half his mind gone-as an interface between here and there. 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. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. 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. Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.
Also Excession, which is bleaker than it looks on first read.
So I definitely recommend more Peter Watts. Well, since you point out that Snow Crash has a different vibe from TBP, Blindsight, and Starfish, Id guess youre looking for more bleak SF stories. Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight The other Firefall book is worth reading, but its a lot less like TBP than Blindsight is.
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