Also by Peter Watts
The Rifters Trilogy
Starfish (1999)
Maelstrom (2001)
βehemoth (2004) (Published in two volumes as βehemoth: β-Max and βehemoth: Seppuku)
Blindsight (2006)
Crysis: Legion (2011)
Echopraxia (forthcoming 2014)
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (2002)
Praise for Starfish (A New York Times Notable Book)
“Fizzing with ideas, and glued together with dark psychological tensions: an exciting debut.”
“Watts makes a brilliant debut with a novel that is part undersea adventure, part psychological thriller, and wholly original.”
“No one has taken this premise to such pitiless lengths—and depths— as Watts.”
Praise for Blindsight
“Intellectually challenging….”
“Watts continues to challenge readers with his imaginative plots and superb storytelling.”
“A brilliant piece of work, one that will delight fans of hard science fiction, but will also demonstrate to literary fans that contemporary science fiction is dynamic and fascinating literature that demands to be read.”
Publication History
“The Things” copyright © 2010 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Clarkesworld #40, January 2010.
“The Island” copyright © 2009 by Peter Watts. First appeared in The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (HarperCollins: New York).
“The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald” copyright © 1998 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Divine Realms: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Susan MacGregor (Turnstone Press: Winnipeg, Canada).
“A Word for Heathens” copyright © 2004 by Peter Watts. First appeared in ReVisions, edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel (DAW: New York).
“Home” copyright © 2000 by Peter Watts. First appeared in On Spec #36, Spring 1999, Vol. 11 No. 1.
“The Eyes of God” copyright © 2008 by Peter Watts. First appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, edited by George Mann (Solaris: Nottingham, England).
“Flesh Made Word” copyright © 1994 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Prairie Fire Magazine Vol. 15, #2.
“Nimbus” copyright © 1994 by Peter Watts. First appeared in On Spec #17, Summer 1994, Vol. 6 No. 2.
“Mayfly” copyright © 2005 by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy. First appeared in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Science Fiction, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy: Calgary, Canada).
“Ambassador” copyright © 2002 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing: Calgary, Canada).
“Hillcrest v. Velikovsky” copyright © 2008 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Nature #454, 550, July 23, 2008.
“Repeating the Past” copyright © 2007 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Nature #450, 760, November 28, 2007.
“A Niche” copyright © 1990 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Tesseracts 3, edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott (Porcépic Books: Victoria, British Columbia).
Copyright
Beyond the Rift
Copyright © 2013 by Peter Watts
This is a work of collected fiction.
All events portrayed in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form without the express permission of the author and the publisher.
“Outtro: En Route to Dystopia with the Angry Optimist” copyright © 2013 by Peter Watts
Cover art “Undersea” copyright © 2013 by Hugh Sicotte
Cover and interior design by Elizabeth Story
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BOOK ISBN 13: 978-1-61696-125-1
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First Edition: November 2013
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