New Releases by Peter Watts

This sequel to "Starfish" is a "New York Times" Notable Book. After thousands are killed by an enormous tidal wave, a woman in a wet suit walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach. The beach is filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian subcontinent, who have not gotten far in their attempt to reach America. Is the woman a monster or a goddess?

An international corporation has developed a power facility at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. The only people who can withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater to work in this environment are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive long enough to become sane while worldwide disaster approaches from below?

In this collection of short stories from best-selling author Peter Watts, enter strange new worlds that defy the imagination. Journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings ... push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death ... and watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and salvation to the human race. Nine stories make up this stunning new collection from a rising talent in the field of Science Fiction.

The hybrid language of the frontier is revealed in this compilation of terms used by the cattlemen, frontiersmen, scouts, cowboys, and gamblers