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Official series · Firefall

Firefall at the Edge

First contact strips human cognition to its uncomfortable components, then follows the posthuman institutions, altered bodies, and competing intelligences that rush into the space where certainty failed.

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01Volume 1

MysteryDanger

Blindsight

Peter Watts

After alien probes map Earth and vanish, a man who reads people without feeling close to them joins a radically altered crew sent to meet an intelligence that may not need awareness at all.

10hDemandingSeries

02Volume 2

ExistentialDanger

Echopraxia

Peter Watts

An unmodified biologist is forced aboard a mission with hive minds, soldiers who switch off awareness, and a vampire whose plans intersect an alien intelligence.

10hDemandingSeries

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