[sph]

Reminds me of that infinite pain I felt in my soul when I resigned to the idea that Blindsight by Peter Watts could be a fantastic Scifi book, but its writing is so obtuse and impenetrable I am permanently locked out of its story.

Anyone care to recommend a dark scifi book about utterly alien lifeforms or worlds, that are more accessible to someone with average IQ?

https://youtu.be/DnF7LMkGxhY

[akkartik]

Yeah, Blindsight is great in many ways but the aliens aren't really the centerpiece. Once they get too alien you just get noise.

As it happens, I recently inventoried my favorite aliens and eliminated the ones that were too humanized and also not understandable to people. I might be missing something obvious, but the one that sticks in my mind 2 years after I read it is:

Pandora's Star