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Robert Charles Wilson, says THE BRAND NEW York Times, "writes superior technology fiction thrillers." His Darwinia acquired Canada's Aurora Honor; his most recent book, The Chronoliths, acquired the esteemed John W. Campbell Memorial Honor. Now he instructs a gripping tale of alien contact and individual love in a strange but hopeful universe.
At Blind Lake, a big federal research installation in northern Minnesota, researchers are using a technology they scarcely understand to watch everyday living in a city of lobster like aliens after a distant globe. They can not contact the aliens in any way or understand their dialect. All they can do is watch.
Then, unexpectedly, a armed forces cordon is imposed on the Blind Lake site. All communication with the outside world is take off. Food and other vital supplies are delivered by remote control. No one recognizes why.
The researchers, nevertheless, go on with their research. Among them are Nerissa Iverson and the man she just lately divorced, Raymond Scutter. They continue to work together regardless of the difficult conditions and the bitterness between them. Ray believes their attempts are doomed; that culture is arbitrary, and the aliens will forever be an enigma.
Nerissa believes there's a commonality of sentient thought, and that our failure to understand is our own ignorance, not a fact of characteristics. The tendencies of the alien she has been tracking seems to be expanding an elusive narrative logic--and she comes to feel that the alien is somehow, impossibly, alert to the project's observers.
But her time is operating out. Ray is turning hostile, stalking her. The armed forces cordon is tightening. Understanding got better come soon....
At Blind Lake, a big federal research installation in northern Minnesota, researchers are using a technology they scarcely understand to watch everyday living in a city of lobster like aliens after a distant globe. They can not contact the aliens in any way or understand their dialect. All they can do is watch.
Then, unexpectedly, a armed forces cordon is imposed on the Blind Lake site. All communication with the outside world is take off. Food and other vital supplies are delivered by remote control. No one recognizes why.
The researchers, nevertheless, go on with their research. Among them are Nerissa Iverson and the man she just lately divorced, Raymond Scutter. They continue to work together regardless of the difficult conditions and the bitterness between them. Ray believes their attempts are doomed; that culture is arbitrary, and the aliens will forever be an enigma.
Nerissa believes there's a commonality of sentient thought, and that our failure to understand is our own ignorance, not a fact of characteristics. The tendencies of the alien she has been tracking seems to be expanding an elusive narrative logic--and she comes to feel that the alien is somehow, impossibly, alert to the project's observers.
But her time is operating out. Ray is turning hostile, stalking her. The armed forces cordon is tightening. Understanding got better come soon....
Blind Lake is a 2004 Hugo Honor Nominee for Best Novel.
