Blindsight

Blindsight by Peter Watts
75 of 383 pages read

In the near future, humanity is visited by aliens in this first contact novel.  When thousand of alien devices encircle the planet Earth, the questions are many.  What is their purpose? Who sent them? Are they friendly?   Remote satellites  pick up on a larger alien artifact moving on the outskirts of the solar system and a crew of misfits is sent to establish contact and figure out what is going on.  The misifts are humans who have been genetically modified and subsequently exhibited strange abilities/personalities as a result. 

I wanted to like the book and it had high ratings but the narration was being done by the character whose main drawback was his inability to connect to other humans.  Thus the language was stilted and veiled by that characters perceptions which made it difficult for me as a reader to connect to the plot.  As a result I stopped reading after 75 pages, as I have other books to move onto.