{"product_id":"9781250237484","title":"Blindsight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo months since the stars fell...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo months of silence, while a world held its breath.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003een route\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003evampire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003esynthesist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ehere \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ethere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772430975222,"sku":"9781250237484","price":105.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/91QhIpYvuQL._SL1500.jpg?v=1790827566","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9781250237484","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}