I finished this remarkable novel in August 2012. It's a bit overwrought and suffers from some unnecessary obscurity in the climax, but overall it feels well-researched and it rewards the attentive reader. It covers some thematic territory that Science Fiction has always been very well-suited to, including the nature of the mind, identity, consciousness, and perception, but is set within an alien-first-contact plot that keeps things moving at a lively pace. Published under a Creative Commons license, Blindsight is a reader's bargain.
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Originally posted 24 Aug 2012 on Google+