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    Beyond the Rift

    By Peter Watts

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    Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien.

    The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms.

    Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTachyon Publications
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781616961268
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    Peter Watts

    Peter Watts is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Blindsight.

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    • 4/5
      Dark collection of stories.The ThingsAs the title promises, this is a replay of the standard "The Thing" scenario - a group of scientists working at a Polar base, find something long buried, which then awakens and goes on the rampage and must be stopped to save the world. The twist here is the nature of the "thing", hinted at in the title. A brilliantly inventive re-imagining of a tired cliche.The IslandThe dysfunctional crew in charge of a generation spaceship extending a star-gate network come across a lifeform so unusual that it must be unique...but there is a problem. Another characteristically dark, edgy and imaginative story from this author.The second coming of Jasmine FitzgeraldA man has been brutally murdered by his partner. The councillor assigned the case begins to believe otherwise...A word for heathensA devout warrior is tested...HomeA long lost drone returns, but is it home? Bleak.The eyes of GodEvil has gone but so has freedom....Flesh made wordA researcher tries to recreate a lost child via a simulation...NimbusThe Earth finally turns on humanity...Mayfly (with Derryl Murphy)Parents and their child live in different time streams...AmbassadorA lone drone runs from an unknown race hunting it... but the roles can be reversed...Hillcrest versus VelikovskyA sceptic is on trial for breaking the faith of a believer... Repeating the pastVery grim tale about learning from history....A nicheRifters settng, one of the shift members seems to 'go' native in the deep sea Outrro: En route to dystopia with the angry optimistThe author on why his work is not dark and an encounter with US Border Guards...
    • 2/5
      I both listened to the audio version and read the story afterwards as part of the 2010 Best Science Fiction anthology. I thought the concept of the enormous alien organism was interesting enough to merit two stars all by itself, but I did not resonate with either of the main characters in this story. And the revelation at the end at what was going on felt to me like it came out of nowhere - I could not see how this was reasoned or intuited out.