Starfish
When civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic s...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Godalming :
Tor ; Melia [distributor],
2008.
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| Series: | Rifters trilogy ;
bk. 1 |
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| Summary: | When civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up... But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what they have in them -- and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole damn planet...--From Amazon.com. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 1999. |
| Physical Description: | 317 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780765315960 (pbk.) 0765315963 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Peter Watts lives in Toronto, Ontario. |
