Blindsight

The novel "Blindsight" is one of the most famous and most important works of Peter Watts, and readers and critics unanimously consider it the main and top achievement of the writer.
The end of the XXI century. Unbalanced humanity, which is already on the threshold of many challenges and inevitable changes, faces a new problem of a fundamentally different level - the first contact. But is it so easy to communicate with someone who, looking at you almost up close, does not want to appear in the focus of your vision? All the more so if vision and all the other senses on which humanity relied during millions of years of its earthly evolution turn out to be worthless when it comes to communicating with "others" who were formed under completely different conditions, and for whom all human concepts and the concept of behavior is as worthless as even the very understanding of contact is meaningless.
The spaceship "Theseus" - the pinnacle of earthly technology - goes to the outskirts of the solar system to try to learn about those who unexpectedly visited the Earth a few years ago.