explorer / books · 2007
Blindsight
Peter Watts’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 2006 by Tor Books · 384 pages
Hugo · 2007
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This book is recorded on the Hugo ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
When sixty-five thousand alien probes photograph the Earth and then burn up, a crew of radically modified humans is sent to investigate the source. Led by a vampire and crewed by a linguist with four personalities, a biologist who interfaces with machines, and a narrator who has had half his brain removed, they encounter an alien intelligence that challenges every assumption about consciousness.
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