Blindsight

Peter Watts lives in Toronto, Canada.http://www.rifters.com/index.htm

出版者:Tor Books

作者:Peter Watts

页数:384

出版时间:2008-3-4

价格:USD 15.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780765319647

图书标签:科幻硬科幻小说PeterWatts科幻小说《盲视》SF科幻世界译文版

Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since--until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us.

Who you do send to meet the alien

when the alien doesn't want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities carved surgically into her brain. You send

a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultra-

sound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You

send a pacifist warrior whose career-defining moment was an act of treason. You

send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called

vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics

and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist — an

informational topologist with half his mind gone — as an

interface between here and there, a conduit through

which the Dead Center might hope to understand

the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you

can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world.

You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've

been sent to find.

But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you

only knew what was waiting for them...

读后感

《人类简史》其实是我很早以前就看过的，当时边看边呼好厉害好牛逼我要认赫拉利当爸爸，可是时间长了，学渣的脑力就显现出来了，现在要我回忆，我还真不太记得那些宏大的关系和骇人的论断。 倒是前段时间看了本科幻小说《盲视》，会让我时不时地想起《人类简史》。 《盲视》的...  

之前看过很多艺术作品，探讨的自我意识的真实性的，像楚门的世界、盗梦空间或者黑客帝国等等，你身处感官所营造的环境之中，如何才能觉得自我和世界是真实的。你看大街上人来人往，为什么不能除了你都是npc呢？程序设定让他们能与你交流，做出合理的社交反应，你丝毫不会怀疑他...  

我其实不太敢写《盲视》的读后感了，怎么看都觉得自己只看懂了皮毛，全书给我以爽快感的同时，也让我充满了不解与困惑。 不过如果真的要评价评价的话。我觉得这个词很适合这本书：震撼。全书的阅读快感随着剧情发展直线上升，看到前段中文屋的剧情之后便欲罢不能。后期角色之...  

一月刊入手很早，但是读完却很晚。主要是被《盲视》折腾得死去活来。瞧见封面上的长篇主打宣传语，心想这和“黑暗森林”如出一辙的故事应该很“好”读，但是埋头读下去才发现，原来编辑的导读是忽悠。的确《盲视》中关于“接触”的观点和大刘有些相似，但是文中真正探讨的其实...  

用户评价

几年以来读过最喜欢的小说之一。我已经开启了安利模式。

还不错。小说抹黑自由意志，但其中反自由意志的论述又不是特别让人信服。

什么时候还是搞一本原文来看看……说什么能和黑暗森林相比，黑暗森林和这个比就是渣呀，渣……

Well if this isn’t mind-fucking I don’t know what it is. 大概看明白了。然而并没有真正明白。一大半生词没有中文解释。（至少电子版的内置辞典里没有）唯一欣慰的是发现中文版的读者短评也都是“文字太难啃了”。所以，至少艰涩感翻译过去了？确定自己读懂的一个梗是“罗夏”，未知的外星物体取这么个名字真是令人回味无穷。回头一想，一个发生在deep space的冒险故事，探讨的（其中一个）核心却是人类自我意识的冗余性，有点反讽。本来以为主角叫做Siri纯属巧合，看完故事就觉得其实跟苹果的Siri有点共通之处。这个故事有没有漫画呢？好想再看个白话版的。

Really remarkable - one of the best SF books I've read in some time.