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Starfish

Peter Watts

June 15, 1999 · Hardcover · Tor · 320 pp

First edition · ISBN 9780312868550 · English · US · Dewey 813/.6 21 · LC PR9199.3.W386 S7 1999

Science Fiction

Hardcover

A huge international corporation has developed a power facility at the bottom of the deep San Juan de Fuca Rift in the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They have sent a bioengineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately, the only people suitable for long-term employment at the bottom of the ocean in these experimental power stations are psychotic, some of them in unpleasant ways. None of the crew will ever be allowed to return to the surface. One of the central questions is how many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, long enough to become sane, while worldwide disaster approaches from below.

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