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Starfish (Mass Market Paperback)

by Peter Watts (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; First edition (16 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812575857
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812575859
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 971,510 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Gritty action and realistic science...a dark and vivid world." --David Brin
"The dark universe of the sea bottom and the rich characterization captivate to the last page. Watts makes a brilliant debut with a novel that is part undersea adventure, part psychological thriller, and wholly original." --"Booklist" (starred review)
"A very impressive book, highly original in its setting and unusually ingenious." --Brian Stableford
"Peter Watts delivers--solid, inventive hard SF about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind." --Gregory Benford


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A story of the not-too-distant future, and the exploitation of the geothermal resources of the deep Juan de Fuca Rift in the Pacific by multinational corporations. Unfortunately, all the volunteers who are surgically altered for employment at the bottom of the ocean are psychotic.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Future thriller needs a sequel, 25 Jul 1999
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This review is from: Starfish (Hardcover)
Not that I wasn't satisfied with it as it was. Believe what the author tells you - this book plays like an underwater Blade Runner. It's glum. There's no hope. Everything's dank and dreary and there's not one character you'd like to have as a close friend. I like that in a book - feels real, like a dysfunctional crew on an off-shore oil platform (at least they're not unionized, that would be worse).

Anyway, the best thing about this book is the science, particularly the author's in-depth speculation on "how to get a human to live several miles under water". Everyone's seen the Abyss. I'm sure the author was chuckling watching Bud Brigman descend the fathoms and still survive, even with that transluscent pink oxygenated flurocarbon swill in his lungs. That scene may have been the author's impetus. Or maybe Deep Star Six.

The pyranosal RNA thing, however....not too keen on that. Seems like the author was looking for an excuse to keep the deep-sea-ers down there, and the author pulled that from his nether regions. Doesn't matter.

Anyway - I wander. Great book. Good writing. Accurate science (I'm a biochemist). Compelling and scary characters. And there will be a sequel. There has to be. I look forward to it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Inventive and worth reading, if you can put up with the shonky ending, 28 Jun 2008
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This review is from: Starfish (Rifters Trilogy) (Paperback)
Starfish explores a somewhat similar setting to his later novel Blindsight. The characters are even more dysfunctional and hateable than in the later novel, and the first three quarters of the book are inventive. Unfortunately, the end falls into the rather tired cliche of an Evil Corporation oppressingthe characters For The Good Of Humanity. A shame. Mind you, it does give him a hook on which to hang the next story in this trilogy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Cyberpunk!, 8 Dec 2007
If there were to be a film made of this novel it would start "in a world....blah blah".

Lennie Clarke is an abused, disaffected, sociopath with few redeeming qualities. When she offered a job opportunity that will require her to be fitted with biomechanical implants (as well as having her genetic make up altered) which will allow her to breath sea water and withstand the crushing pressures of 300 atmospheres she jumps at it. Unfortunately for her she won't be alone....the vessel she is working in thousands of metres below the sea contains other miscreants and psychopath's, otherwise known as rifters. So why choose them? Their job is to work on the Channer Vent in the Juan De Fuca rift, a goethermal site with massive potential for the Corpses (Corporate elite). Unfortunately for the world something has been lving in the vent for a lot longer than humanity and disturbing it could cost the earth...literally.

This book is dark and brooding and the sense of crushing claustraphobia is palpable. Most of this first book (there are three others in the Rifters Series) is focused around life in Beebe Station for the Rifters, and a psychotic bunch they are to. Paedophiles, murders and abuse victims (i think you get the picture.

Watts paints a picture of a future world where the big company's call the shots and they don't care who they trample to get what they want. I've read Maelstrom which takes a really nifty Noir direction to good effect.

A top read from an Author who has not been so prolific in his writing.

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