{"product_id":"blindsight-by-peter-watts-9781250237484","title":"Blindsight","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, \u003cem\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo months since the stars fell...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo months of silence, while a world held its breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow 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 \u003cem\u003een route\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo who do you send to force introductions with an unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou 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 \u003cem\u003evampire\u003c\/em\u003e, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a \u003cem\u003esynthesist\u003c\/em\u003e—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between \u003cem\u003ehere\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ethere\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642798817516,"sku":"9781250237484","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250237484-blindsight.jpg?v=1779158148","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/blindsight-by-peter-watts-9781250237484","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}