'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher. It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade. He held several academic positions & worked as a marine-mammal biologist before becoming an author. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His works include the Rifters trilogy (e.g. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!. Peter Watts ( ) is a Hugo Award winning sci-fi author. 'A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good.' Charles Stross. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. Something out there talks – but not to us. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. Buy a cheap copy of Blindsight book by Peter Watts. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere – a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia.
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