Blindsight/Trivia

Science Marches On: The research Watts got a lot of his ideas from are almost all from Nature and Science, which are journals specifically designed to get out new, controversial research into the scientific community. As such, some of the cutting-edge ideas that Watts based the science of the novel on have now been disproven.
Write What You Know: Watts' Starfish Aliens are starfishy-er than usual, due in large part to his expertise in marine biology. The premise for the book comes from some of the more out-there theories on how intelligent marine life could differ from intelligence as we know it.