Peter Watts
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Behemoth
- By: Peter Watts
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.78(2233 ratings)
Lenie Clarke has destroyed the world. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth-has been free in the world for half a decade now. North America lies in ruins. Digital monsters have taken Clarke’s name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle.
But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy.
Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial “corpses” who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made.
Redemption doesn’t come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds . . .
Behemoth
- By: Peter Watts
- Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 29, 2022
- Language: English
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3.78(2233 ratings)
Lenie Clarke has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.
For five years, she and her bionic brethren have hidden in the mountains of the deep Atlantic. The facility they commandeered was more than a secret station on the ocean floor. Atlantis was an exit strategy for the corporate elite, a place where the world’s Movers and Shakers had hidden from the doomsday microbe ßehemoth. For five years “rifters” and “corpses” have lived in a state of uneasy truce, united by fear of the outside world.
An unknown enemy hunts them through the crushing darkness of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ßehemoth has found them already. The fragile armistice between the rifters and their one-time masters has exploded into all-out war, and not even the legendary Lenie Clarke can take back the body count.
Billions have died since she loosed ßehemoth upon the world. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably to the very floor of the world, and Lenie Clarke must return to confront the mess she made.
But even after five years in pitch-black purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds . . .
Blindsight
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrator: Peter Watts
- Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 24, 2008
- Language: English
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4.01(27980 ratings)
Set in 2082, Peter Watts’ Blindsight is fast-moving hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold. After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.
... Read moreEchopraxia
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrator: Adam J. Rough
- Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 26, 2014
- Language: English
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3.84(6474 ratings)
It’s the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans. And it’s all under surveillance by an alien presence. Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational. He’s turned his back on humanity, but awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. He’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call The Angels of the Asteroids.
... Read moreEchopraxia – Booktrack Edition
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrator: Adam J. Rough
- Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 30, 2018
- Language: English
Echopraxia: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! It’s the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans. And it’s all under surveillance by an alien presence. Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational. He’s turned his back on humanity, but awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. He’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids.”
... Read moreMaelstrom
- By: Peter Watts
- Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 25, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(3858 ratings)
This is the way the world ends:
A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe-voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction-and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who’d inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement.
The resulting tsunami killed millions. It’s not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.
Unless, of course, you miss the target.
Now North America’s west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon.
Her name is Lenie Clarke. She’s a rifter. She’s not nearly as dead as everyone thinks.
And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she’s concerned . . .
Starfish
- By: Peter Watts
- Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 28, 2019
- Language: English
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3.95(8257 ratings)
A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew-people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater-down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.95(3441 ratings)
How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code–and unavoidable casualties.
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