peter watts

Full disclosure: I did not, and could not, finish this book. In order to exploit the raw energy available in the deep divergent plate boundary of the Juan de Fuca ridge humans must be severely modified to be capable of living for extended periods of time at such depths. But just what sort of...

The time is the late 21st century, and the aliens have arrived. Sixty-five thousand unknown objects, in perfectly symmetrical formation, simultaneously burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. An unmanned probe, far out at the edge of the Solar System, detects the faint trace of communications from a...