title: The Blind Geometer
text: # The Blind Geometer
  
  "The Blind Geometer" is a 1986 science fiction story by American writer Kim Stanley Robinson. It was published by Asimov's Science Fiction.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Carlos Nevsky is a blind professor of solid geometry who discovers that his new colleagues are manipulating him for sinister purposes.
  
  ## Reception
  
  "The Blind Geometer" won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1987, and was a finalist for the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
  
  The Los Angeles Review of Books considered that the story "amply demonstrates Robinson’s hard-SF credentials". Strange Horizons, however, felt that it was "ambitious but awkward", with an "uneven mix of perceptual philosophy and conspiracy thriller."
  
  