Vampires From Peter Watts’ “Blindsight” - Reddit
WEBAug 17, 2019 · Vampires were accidentally rediscovered when a form of experimental gene therapy went curiously awry, kick-starting long-dormant genes in an autistic child and provoking a series of (ultimately fatal) physical and neurological changes.
I don't understand Blindsight (Firefall) by Peter Watts.. I am ... - Reddit
WEBIn Blindsight, Big Ben is about a third of a light year away from Earth. Big Ben isn’t orbiting the sun, it’s a relatively new arrival. A rogue gas giant, ejected from a solar system either accidentally or on purpose, we don’t know.
My imaginations of Blindsight by Peter Watts : r/midjourney - Reddit
WEBAug 5, 2022 · Would you mind if I added them to Blindsight gallery (with appropriate attribution, of course)? Also, did you use DALL-E for the male vampire as well? There's a bit of an AI vibe about those brush strokes.
Blindsight (Watts novel) - Wikipedia
WEBIt carries a crew of five cutting-edge transhuman hyper-specialists, of whom one is a genetically reincarnated vampire who acts as the nominal mission commander. While the crew is in hibernation en route, the just-arrived second wave of probes commence a compounded radar scan of the subsurface of Burns-Caulfield, but …
What happened in Blindsight? - peterwatts - Ask MetaFilter
WEBSep 22, 2011 · What the hell happens at the end of Peter Watts' entertainingly grittygrim space vampire novel Blindsight? (spoilers expected and obligatory, naturally)
Blindsight by Peter Watts - rifters.com
WEBNobody gets past Jupiter without becoming part vampire. The pain begins, just slightly, to recede. You fire up your inlays and access your own vitals: it'll be long minutes before your body responds fully to motor commands, hours before it stops hurting.
Blindsight by Peter Watts - Fantasy-Hive
WEBSep 13, 2017 · If the mind boggles at the thought of a vampire in a hard science fiction novel, don’t worry – Watts has it covered. The worldbuilding, the characters, the environment they inhabit, the danger they face – it’s all so coherent and consistent and relentlessly logical that it works.
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts | Goodreads
WEBOct 1, 2006 · You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. 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.
WEBVampiris hearing and vision were superior to that of sapiens; vampire retinas were quadrochromatic (containing four types of cones, compared to only three among baseline humans); the fourth cone type, common to nocturnal predators ranging from cats to snakes, was tuned to near-infrared.
Blindsight by Peter Watts Review – Bookspotcentral
WEBJul 24, 2018 · The Captain of the ship is a sophisticated artificial intelligence — an intelligence without apparent sentience — who communicates mainly with the mission leader, Jukka Sarasti. And Sarasti is a vampire. Yes, I did just write “vampire,” in a review of a book I have labeled “hard science fiction.”