#weirdlit

I have finished writing another review on Blindsight, by Peter Watts. I hope you all enjoy it. I was slightly withdrawn from sleep when writing this so it may be a bit nonsensical but nonetheless... In short, Blindsight is what happens when aliens decide to take a selfie with Earth, pings everybody in the universal groupchat, then proceeds to not respond to anyone asking for clarification on the existence of alien life. Excerpt from: Me (again)

Blindsight by Peter Watts is a hard science fiction novel about extraterrestrial first contact in the far future AND BEFORE YOU CLICK OFF THE PAGE SAYING YOU AREN'T INTERESTED,

hold on. 

Stick around, for a moment. 

Because I too, didn't really find appeal in humanity's first contact with extraterrestrials 

(even if it is SUPER COOL) (actually writing that out loud kind of shifted my views, first contact novels were always cool)

Lots - LOTS - of media don't do aliens well. I will admit, alien first-contact novels are not something I am overly well-versed in, so I don't have much to compare it to. Most first contact media are summarized with either a resounding "we made contact with aliens, they want to kill us", or "we want to make contact, the antagonist doesn't want us to, we made contact anyways and now we're all friends" and while that plot is typical of many different genres outside of science fiction, what usually happens is the actual extraterrestrial first contact sections of the first-contact media are supplanted by unnecessary romantic side-plots or leave the aliens as vague unmentioned beings who are never addressed along with Earth's implied societal reaction. 

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