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Peter Watts 299 <strong>Blindsight</strong><br />

ball barely wider than Jupiter? Was Rorschach also resigned to<br />

defeat, had each side opted for a kamikaze strike on the other?<br />

I don't know. Big Ben got in the way just minutes before the<br />

explosion. That's probably why I'm still alive. Ben stood between<br />

me and that burning light like a coin held against the sun.<br />

Theseus sent everything it could, until the last microsecond.<br />

Every recorded moment of hand-to-hand combat, every last<br />

countdown, every last soul. All the moves and all the vectors. I<br />

have that telemetry. I can break it down into any number of<br />

shapes, continuous or discrete. I can transform the topology, rotate<br />

it and compress it and serve it up in dialects that any ally might be<br />

able to use. Perhaps Sarasti was right, perhaps some of it is vital.<br />

I don't know what any of it means.

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