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Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation (where it is published by Tokyo Sogensha) [2] and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [4] and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...
According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received reviews the site characterized as "Rave" and "Positive". [1]In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote, "At the core of [Leland's] inquiry are the paradoxes of disability: how does one understand blindness as both an impairment and a 'neutral characteristic,' and how can Leland accept his 'new identity' as both central ...
"Blindness" is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. According to Wikipedia, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, and "Blindness" was one of his works noted by ...
Wilful Blindness may refer to: Willful blindness or Willful ignorance; Wilful Blindness (2011 book), a non-fiction book by Margaret Heffernan; Wilful Blindness (2021 book), an investigative book by Sam Cooper
The Books for the Blind Program was the model for the effort in the 1950s for captioned films for the deaf leading to the Captioned Films Act of 1958. [ 6 ] Audio recordings were first created on vinyl when the Pratt-Smoot Act was amended in 1933 to include "talking books", and later, in 1969, [ 7 ] on proprietary cassette tape and player, [ 8 ...
Kleege's book Sight Unseen (Yale University Press, 1999), which blends memoir and criticism, was well received. [8] [4] Reviewers from a variety of fields praised it.Alistair Fielder wrote in the British Medical Journal that it "offers a fascinating and scholarly glimpse into a specific impairment (blindness) and, more importantly, provides unique insight into the complex relation between ...
Two people are dead after a plane crashed into a building near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, according to reports. At around 3:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Kamaka Air ...