Starfish

Peter Watts

Macmillan, Sep 16, 2014 - Fiction - 320 pages

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?

Starfish, the first installment in Peter Watts' Rifters Trilogy

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Contents

• BENTHOS: 17
• CONSTRICTOR: 19
• A Niche: 32
• Housecleaning: 50
• NEOTENOUS: 55
• Elevator Boy: 64
• Crush: 69
• Autoclave: 75
• Waterbed: 78
• Doppelgänger: 84
• Angel: 87
• Feral: 98
• Shadow: 100
• DANCER: 104
• Shortcircuit: 126
• Critical Mass: 138
• NEKTON: 151
• JUMPSTART: 153
• Muckraker: 157
• Scream: 168
• Bulrushes: 188
• Ghosts: 195

About the author

Peter Watts is the author of Starfish, and he currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Starfish; Volume 1 of Rifters Trilogy
• Author: Peter Watts
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2014
• ISBN: 1466881151, 9781466881150
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk