Narrating the story is Siri Keeton, a synthesist, the only type of human who can report with complete objectivity. Extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, they have been brought back for their highly intelligent and analytical minds. Leading the team is a vampire - turns out they truly existed. On board is a crew of highly trained but incredibly bizarre people. There appears to be an intelligent alien presence in the solar system, and a ship has been sent to find it, the Theseus. A comet in the Kuiper Belt sends a beam through space to some unknown destination it is not communicating with Earth. Another alien object appears to be communicating through radio signals as well. Before burning up, these objects emitted radio signals. Something or someone appears to have taken a survey of the planet using 65,536 spherical objects arranged in a precise grid which has descended through the upper atmosphere. In the year 2082, the Earth witnesses an event that can only be of extraterrestrial origin. Science fiction book review: Peter Watts' *Blindsight*
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