Firefall: False blindness. Zero. The gods of insects. Colonel. Echopraxia

In 2082, humanity was convinced that it was not lonely in the universe. Countless reconnaissance probes of aliens enveloped the Earth with a luminous web. Having burned down in the atmosphere, they managed to transmit the signal outside the solar system. Two ships, The the Thefts and the Crown of Crown, go to find out who is behind all these signals, and, possibly, for the first time in the history of mankind to establish contact with extraterrestrial civilization. One of them flies into the depths of the Kuiper belt, the other, 14 years after the first expedition, to the sun. But neither knowledge, nor the latest technology, nor cardinal changes in the brain are able to prepare them for how much more inhuman mind can be ...

The legendary cycle of Peter Watts, all the works telling about the universe of “false blindness” in one volume!