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“Blindsight, a novel by a former marine biologist – and, I think he’d agree, a pessimist about people – has to be science fiction. It has footnotes. It has long chunks of technical exposition. But it is, above all else, an amazing haunted house story. The plot of Blindsight is that one day in the near future, aliens take our picture. We know they take our picture because millions and millions of flash bulbs go off in the sky, and we track these exploding flash bulbs back to where they came from. We send a crew on a ship to find the aliens that took our picture and figure out why they are here. What do they want? And the result is much, much stranger than anything you will get in Star Trek or Star Wars, or even books that are about aliens but still about people.” Read more...
