Books by Peter Watts
“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...
Interviews where books by Peter Watts were recommended
The Best Alien Invasion Books, recommended by Seth Dickinson
Alien invasions are one of the most enduringly popular themes in sci fi. Author Seth Dickinson introduces five mind-bending novels that give a fresh take on the idea of the alien: invasions that are so other in their motives, methods, or meaning that they push us to the edges of human understanding.
