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Pub Date 22 Sep 2026 | Archive Date 22 Sep 2026


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Description

Science fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with this long-awaited short fiction collection. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse. (Also, the healing power of revenge.)
What if a weaponized water supply reprograms pattern recognition in the brain, provoking violent rage at the sight of the Google logo. Or an accidental hive-mind creates a global agenda to resurrect itself in the scant seconds between its emergence and dissolution? A steroidal jump gate-building ship attempts to survive passage through a red-giant sun by hiding inside an ice-giant planet. When something is trying to colonize the sun, humans try to stop it. Spoiler alert: Nobody comes off very well.
In his newest short fiction, alongside an introduction by Richard K. Morgan, Watts (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) reserves whatever hope he has for whatever comes after humans. In light of his stories and recent events, it is difficult to fault that assessment.
Science fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with this long-awaited short fiction collection. Including an unpublished...

A Note From the Publisher

Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and convicted felon (in the U.S. at least, although these days, who isn’t?) whose novels—despite an unhealthy focus on space vampires—have become required texts for university courses ranging from philosophy to neuropsychology. His debut novel Starfish was a New York Times Notable Book. His work has been translated into twenty-four languages, has appeared in thirty-six best-of-year anthologies, and has been nominated for sixty awards, winning twenty-three, including the Hugo, the Shirley Jackson, and the Seiun Awards. Watts lives in Toronto with fantasy author Caitlin Sweet.

Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and convicted felon (in the U.S. at least, although these days, who isn’t?) whose novels—despite an unhealthy focus on space...


Advance Praise

Praise for Peter Watts

“If science fiction can really be claimed as a literature of ideas, then Watts is without doubt its premier practitioner.”

—Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon

“A new book from crazy genius Watts is always cause for celebration . . . Watts is one of those writers who gets into your brain and remains lodged there like an angry, sentient tumor.”

—io9

“Watts displays a gleefully macabre inventiveness combined with scientific rigour.”

—Nalo Hopkinson, author of Brown Girl in the Ring

“[Watts] asks the questions that the best science fiction writers ask, but that the rest of us may be afraid to answer.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Watts continues to challenge readers with his imaginative plots and superb storytelling.”

—Library Journal

“A hard science fiction writer through and through—and one of the very best alive, a peer of writers such as Neil Stephenson, Allen Steele, and the Three Gregs, Benford, Bear and Egan.”

—The Globe and Mail

“Even when Watts is wrong he is brilliant.”

—Armed and Dangerous

“Watts’s novels blow the mind pretty much on every page.”

—Tor.com

Praise for Peter Watts

“If science fiction can really be claimed as a literature of ideas, then Watts is without doubt its premier practitioner.”

—Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon

“A new book...


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  • Select outreach to leading science fiction and mainstream print/online reviewers
  • In-person events to include regional Canadian venues
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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781616964672
PRICE $18.95 (USD)
PAGES 352

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