If the mind boggles at the thought of a vampire in a hard science fiction novel, don’t worry – Watts has it covered. Nobody gets past Jupiter without becoming part vampire. The other crew members include a linguist with multiple personalities who might be able to communicate with the aliens, a soldier sent along to fight, should it be needed, though she’d rather keep the peace, and a vampire. It came in especially handy when the real aliens came calling.
When the mission to investigate the whispers at the edge of the solar system is first imagined, his father has no hesitation in putting him forward for the job.īut that, that distance – that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind – it’s not entirely a bad thing. Now he is cold, devoid of feeling, completely lacking in empathy. When he was a kid he suffered from epilepsy – so his parents had half his brain cut out. The problem is, Siri isn’t entirely human himself. The story is narrated by Siri, a synthesist, an observer of patterns and human behaviour. Is it talking to us, or is it calling for reinforcements?
Then a deep space probe picks up a whisper at the edge of the solar system. The beginning of an invasion? For two months nothing more is seen or heard. Sixty-five thousand objects burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
So begins this hard science fiction novel from Canadian author Peter Watts.
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