Blindsight By Peter Watts.epub -

Every wild idea—from the vampires to the space travel—is backed by a 30-page appendix of real scientific citations.

Peter Watts has made the book available for free under a Creative Commons license on his official site, though you can also find it at retailers like Barnes & Noble .

A linguist with four distinct personalities surgically partitioned into her brain to process complex alien languages.

The story begins in 2082 when 65,000 alien probes simultaneously surround Earth, photograph it in a flash of fire, and then vanish. In response, humanity sends the starship Theseus to the edge of the solar system to find out who—or what—is watching.