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Peter Watts (b. 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. E earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. E began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school.

1958) is a Canadian science fiction author. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He specializes in hard science fiction.

Blindsight Blindsight is the Hugo Award-nominated novel by Peter Watts, “a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive” (The Globe and Mail) Two months have passed since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned he heavens have been silent, until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet.

Something talks out there: but not to us ho should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can't feel his own flesh.

End a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood end them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters 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 knew what was waiting for them… Echopraxia Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight t's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself aniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat ut he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system o his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids.” Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself Each book has a bonus short story Echopraxia has the short story “The Colonel” while Blindsight has the short story “Insect Gods.” This set of two books is limited to 300 signed and numbered copies Each book has a ribbon marker and signature page signed by Peter Watts and artist Thomas Walker The books are bound in full cloth with foil blocking in multiple colors, with handsome endsheets he dustjackets are printed in four colors on top of a silver ink, creating an unusual look for the books Each book has multiple illustrations by Thomas Walker. edition information.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 signed & numbered sets.
• Signed by Peter Watts and Thomas Walker.
• Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket printed with silver inks, ribbon marker, head and tail bands.
• Multiple color foil stamping on book.
• Two bonus short stories.
• ISBNs 978-1-61347-260-6 and 978-1-61347-261-3.
• Number of pages: 424 and 464.

External Links

• Blindsight. Centipede Press page for Blindsight
• Peter Watts (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Peter Watts