Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

I liked Blindsight quite a lot better than you did, but I'm so glad someone else didn't think it was "most awesome brilliant novel ever!!!!". It was intelligent and well done, and better than I thought something w/it's particular premise would be (had so many not raved so much, that would have put me off from reading it forever--I just couldn't see that crew getting sent on that mission), but, plenty of Greg Bear or David Brin things that did similar things equally well or arguably better. And I thought it had various flaws that I can't really discuss w/out being spoilery. Still, the whole thing w/getting inside Siri's head was interesting, as were the ways the aliens worked and the whole "what is sentience?" bit.