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Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in narratives that are by turns dark, satiric, and introspective.
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Contemporary, meticulous, classical in form and bleak.
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Watts
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 235
- Publisher
- Tachyon Pub., Tachyon Publications
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616961275
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Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist.
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