Starfish - Couverture rigide

Watts, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312868553 ISBN 13 : 9780312868550

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 1999

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Book by Watts Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew–people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater–down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist. His first novel Starfish was then followed with the sequels, behemoth: b-Max and behemoth: Seppuku. These comprise a trilogy usually referred to as “Rifters” after the modified humans designed to work in deep-ocean environments. Watts’ novel Blindsight was nominated for a 2006 Hugo Award, and has been described by Charles Stross; “Imagine a neurobiology-obsessed version of Greg Egan writing a first contact with aliens story from the point of view of a zombie posthuman crewman aboard a starship captained by a vampire, with not dying as the boobie prize.” Echopraxia, released in 2014 is a “sidequel” about events happening on Earth and elsewhere concurrent with the events in Blindsight. In addition to his novels and short stories, Watts has also worked in other media. He was peripherally involved in the early stages of the animated science fiction film and television project Strange Frame, and also worked briefly with Relic Entertainment on one of the early drafts of the story that would eventually, years later, become Homeworld 2. The creative director of Bioshock 2 has cited Watts’s work as an influence on that game.

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Support Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFront So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going, back on shore. But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what they have in them—and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole damn planet...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312868553
• ISBN 13: 9780312868550
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 317