What many of you don’t know is that it was originally a somewhat longer novel called Frozen Hell. Many of you have no doubt heard of “Who Goes There?” by John Campbell, the landmark story that was made into two separate science fiction classics under the title of The Thing. Add to this Watts’s knack for some chillingly detached dialogue (“This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams”) and an entire universe of unnerving implications, and it soon becomes obvious why Blindsight deserves its place as a cosmic-horror classic.Īpple | Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound The premise of a world where humanity is rapidly chasing any and every possible “improvement” and the cast of maladaptive characters sent into space seemingly because they frighten the hell out of everyone else on Earth is horrifying enough, but when Blindsight really gets going, it turns into a frightening first-contact story where the aliens and the humans terrify each other to the point that they brutalize the other side in desperate self-defense. Set in a future where humans have taken transhumanism a bit too far and narrated mainly by a man who had half of his brain removed to “cure” his epilepsy, Blindsight follows the crew of the Theseus as they investigate a strange object in deep space. If you’ve ever looked at science fiction and wondered why all these technological advancements and alien races are portrayed a trifle too optimistically, then Blindsight is the book for you.
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