Blindsight

Blindsight by Peter Watts is probably the densest sci-fi book I've read in recent times. According to the author, despite being a hard sci-fi novel, this book gets suggested to many undergraduate neuroscience college students, as a recommended read. After reading the book, I can see why. This book is about mankind's first contact with an alien lifeform and humans try to understand whether the being they have encountered is hostile or not. This book dives deep into the topics of what it is to be sentient, conscious, and intelligent. This book is probably going to be very hard to digest even for native speakers. The story is told from the perspective of a protagonist whose brain is half machine half organic. Naturally, the plot is told in a very fractured, dry, and factual way which creates a difficult to understand yet “amazingly enjoyable when you get it” read; This is what I love about sci-fi books. Blindsight is going to stay for a very long time in my mind. It is a diamond cutter in terms of sci-fi hardness; I strongly recommended this book.