Let’s get started.Ĭontent Notice: severe ableism, graphic violence among children, the possible death of a child, and stigmatizing description of brain surgery. You can read through the whole prologue on Watt’s confusing website. Prologues are almost never the best way to begin a book, and when they are, they should be renamed “Chapter One.” But Watts put it in his book, so that’s what we’re covering. Plus, able-bodied writers have a bad habit of giving blind characters some sort of supernatural sight and then acting like it’s profound.īlindsight opens with a prologue. Simply naming it isn’t ableist, but the word “blindsight” is regularly misused in fiction. Blindsight is a real neurological phenomenon. The cover features a planet that looks overrun by the dark brambles from Sleeping Beauty, and the title makes me wary of possible ableism. It’s time to get close and personal with Blindsight, a Hugo-nominated science fiction novel by Peter Watts.
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