peter watts

Full disclosure: I did not, and could not, finish this book. In order to exploit the raw energy available in the deep divergent plate boundary of the Juan de Fuca ridge humans must be severely modified to be capable of living for extended periods of time at such depths. But just what sort of...

Blindsight Peter Watts Tor, Oct 2006, ISBN: 0765312182 As the twenty-first century nears its ending, Fireflies light up the sky. Scientists realize this strange phenomenon is sending signals back to something just outside the edge of our solar system. To learn more and to make first contact...

Starfish Peter Watts Tor, Apr 20 2008, $14.00 ISBN: 9780765315960 In the near future, the energy crisis has hit geometric proportions that no one anticipated just a few years earlier. Desperate for new clean sources leads to of geothermal sources deep in the ocean in places like Juan de Fuca...

Maelstrom Peter Watts Tor, Jan 6 2009, $14.95 ISBN: 9780765320537 Although the deaths were expected to reach millions, the nuclear strike on the Pacific Ocean floor geothermal power plant Channer Vent was rationalized as the only way to save the surface population from the ancient microbe that...

The time is the late 21st century, and the aliens have arrived. Sixty-five thousand unknown objects, in perfectly symmetrical formation, simultaneously burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. An unmanned probe, far out at the edge of the Solar System, detects the faint trace of communications from a...