Peter Watts, Author . Tor $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-87806-1
This sequel to Canadian Watts's well-received debut novel, Starfish
(1999), delivers more of the same exciting hard SF adventure and imaginative plot. A killer tidal wave created by an explosion at an underwater geo-thermal power station has...
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Peter Watts, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86855-0
Set in the early 21st century, Watts's debut describes a future when the search for energy leads to the tapping of geothermal sources deep in the ocean, as in the Pacific's Juan de Fuca Rift, near Canada's Northwest coast. The maintenance workers of
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Peter Watts, Author . Tor $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0721-7
In Canadian author Watts's third but not final installment in the hard SF trilogy (see Forecast below) that began with Starfish
(1999) and Maelstrom
(2001), the surviving corporate elite from the earlier books and "rifters" (cyborgs...
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Peter Watts, Author . Tor $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1172-6
In Canadian author Watts's intense, beautifully written conclusion to his Rifters trilogy (after 2004's ßehemoth: ß-Max
), Lenie Clarke, the near-psychotic, bio-engineered woman who loosed the deadly organism known as ßehemo
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Peter Watts. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-61696-125-1
Self-proclaimed angry optimist Watts offers 13 disquieting tales of science fiction, constructing worlds of alienation and horrific transformation from the building blocks of cutting-edge science. Beginning with “The Things,” a lauded re-examination
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Peter Watts. Tor, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2802-1
Hugo-winner Watts attempts “faith-based hard SF” in this dense, fast-moving companion to 2006’s Blindsight set in a late-21st-century world of genetically resurrected vampires, weaponized zombies, and Nobel-winning monastic hive minds. Daniel Brüks,
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Peter Watts, Author . Tor $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-765-31218-1
Canadian author Watts (Starfish
) explores the nature of consciousness in this stimulating hard SF novel, which combines riveting action with a fascinating alien environment. In the late 21st century, when something alien is discovered beyond the...
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Edited by Neil Clarke. Wyrm, $16.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-890464-30-1
Longtime magazine editor Clarke (Clarkesworld), inspired by the experience of becoming a "cyborg" after getting an implanted defibrillator, decided to explore new takes on cyborgs, and this anthology largely succeeds in presenting interesting twists
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Peter Watts. Tachyon, $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-252-4
In this short, tight novel that contains vast science-fictional speculation, the human crew of the construction ship Eriophora spends 66 million years building interstellar wormhole gates, so they have lots of time to ponder issues of purpose....
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