Best Selling Books by Peter Watts

Peter Watts is the author of Upgraded (2014), Tetrachloroethene (2006), Level Guide to the South West (2003), Le cose (2014), Up in Smoke (2016).

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Upgraded

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Upgraded
Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . . The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and made him a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories by Greg Egan, Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more!

Tetrachloroethene

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Tetrachloroethene
Tetrachloroethene is used mainly in the dry cleaning of textiles, as a chemical intermediate and in metal degreasing. This report evaluates the available scientific literature on the health and environmental effects of tetrachloroethene based on selected national and regional evaluations. Of key interest is the relevance of several types of tumours included by tetrachloroethene in rats and mice. The report goes on to establish the criteria for setting tolerable intakes and concentrations taking into consideration the potential carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, kidney, liver, and reproductive/developmental toxicity and cancer. Environmental effects are assessed for terrestrial and aquatic organisms sediment-dwelling organisms and microorganisms in sewerage treatment processes. In addition, the risks of harm to plants from air emissions of tetrachloroethene are discussed. Uncertainties in the risk assessment are set out for both human health and the environment.

Level Guide to the South West

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Level Guide to the South West
This tourist guide for wheelchair users and the less able covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset in the UK.. CONTENTS: Covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Somerset Towns are listed within each county and assessed in terms of accessibility for - attractions - shopping facilities - places to stay & eat - car parking - toilets - From the Quomps in Christchurch in Dorset, to the Eden Project in Cornwall, from lodges to 5 star opulence, from fleapits to 3D multiplexes - if it''s accessible, it''s in!

Le cose

release date: Feb 25, 2014
Le cose
Fantascienza - racconto lungo (25 pagine) - L''altra faccia della Cosa: la vicenda del grande classico rivisitata dal punto di vista dell''Alieno. Premio Shirley Jackson, finalista premio Hugo, Locus e Sturgeon Nel grande classico di John Wood Campbell jr La cosa, dal quale sono stati tratti ben tre film, abbiamo seguito la storia degli uomini della base nell''antartico che scoprono nei ghiacci una creatura aliena, un mostro, una cosa terrificante. Ma la storia può essere vista anche da un altro punto di vista. Quello di un viaggiatore dello spazio che dopo un incidente si risveglia circondato da esseri alieni che gli danno la caccia. Esseri che a loro volta, dal suo punto di vista, sono mostri, sono cose altrettanto terrificanti. Finalista a tutti i maggiori premi del settore e vincitore del premio Shirley Jackson per il suspense psicologico, un piccolo classico che non vi farà più vedere i mostri nello stesso modo. Canadese, classe 1958, Peter Watts ha vinto il premio Hugo nel 2010 col racconto L’isola, ma c''era già arrivato vicino nel 2006 col romanzo Blindsight. Biologo specializzato nei mammiferi marini, Watts ha sfruttato le sue conoscenze scientifiche nel romanzo con cui ha esordito, Starfish, al quale ha dato finora tre seguiti.

Up in Smoke

release date: Jan 01, 2016

Échopraxie

release date: Nov 15, 2023
Échopraxie
Terre. 2096. Une intelligence extraterrestre s’est manifestée au genre humain. Un premier contact sans suite : si le Thésée a été envoyé dans les tréfonds obscurs du nuage d’Oort en quête de réponses, les communications avec le vaisseau sont depuis perdues. Sur Terre, la situation tient du désastre : réchauffement climatique et effondrement de la biodiversité ont mis l’humanité à genoux. Mais quelle humanité ? Certains ont fui dans des paradis numériques, d’autres explorent de nouveaux états de conscience. Et puis il y a Daniel Brüks, humain non augmenté, vrai fossile vivant, exilé dans le désert d’Oregon pour en étudier la faune et la flore altérées. Brüks, embarqué malgré lui dans une équipée folle aux côtés d’un militaire inconsolable, d’une pilote vindicative, de moines bicaméraux et d’une vampire, monstruosité ramenée du fond des âges par le génie génétique. C’est le début d’une fuite éperdue jusqu’au cœur brûlant du Système solaire, là où ce qu’il reste de cette humanité fracturée pourrait bien faire face à l’impensable...

Bifrost n° 93

release date: Jan 23, 2019
Bifrost n° 93
Asante part en hurlant. L’enfer est une chambre de réverbération pleine de cris, d’eau de mer et de chocs métalliques. Des ombres monstrueuses passent sur les cloisons, de la lumière verte ondule et s’entrecroise sur la moindre surface. Telles des créatures qui surgissent d’un lagon brillant, les Sahilites émergent du puits central en ouvrant le feu : le milieu du corps de Rashida explose en une brume sombre, sa moitié supérieure tombe sur le pont. Kito est toujours en train de se traîner vers le fusil à harpon sur le séchoir... comme si un vieil outil de pêche pouvait repousser ces monstres avec leurs flingues, leur air comprimé et leurs petites cartouches qui s’enfoncent loin dans votre chair avant de vous montrer l’effet sur vos intestins de la libération de cinq cents atmosphères. Asante a moins que ça. Il n’a que ses poings... Peter Watts ZeroS

Au-delà du gouffre

release date: Nov 13, 2016
Au-delà du gouffre
Nous sommes les hommes des cavernes. Nous sommes les Anciens, les Progéniteurs, les singes qui érigent vos charpentes d’acier. Nous tissons vos toiles, construisons vos portails magiques, enfilons le chas de l’aiguille à soixante mille kilomètres/seconde. Pas question d’arrêter, ni même d’oser ralentir, de peur que la lumière de votre venue ne nous réduise en plasma. Tout cela pour que vous puissiez sauter d’une étoile à la suivante sans vous salir les pieds dans ces interstices de néant infinis...

Bifrost n° 108

release date: Oct 26, 2022
Bifrost n° 108
Ma dernière nuit d’enfant commença par une visite. Les sœurs de T’Gatoi nous avaient attribué deux œufs stériles. Le premier, T’Gatoi le donna à ma mère, mon frère et mes sœurs ; l’autre, elle tenait à ce que je le mange en entier. Peu importait. Il y en avait assez pour que tout le monde se sente bien à la ?n. Presque tout le monde. Ma mère ne voulait pas y toucher. Elle restait assise là, à nous regarder planer et rêver sans elle. La plupart du temps, elle me regardait, moi. Couché contre le long ventre velouté de T’Gatoi, je sirotais mon œuf en me demandant pourquoi ma mère se refusait un plaisir aussi inoffensif. Elle aurait eu moins de cheveux gris si elle se l’était accordé de temps en temps. Les œufs prolongeaient la vie et la force. Mon père, qui n’avait jamais dit non à aucun, était parvenu à un âge au moins deux fois plus avancé que la normale. Et, sur le tard, quand il aurait dû se trouver ralenti, il avait épousé ma mère et lui avait fait quatre enfants... Octavia E. Butler Enfants de sang

Prodigal Father Devotional Journal

release date: Mar 10, 2021
Prodigal Father Devotional Journal
Prodigal Father Devotional Journal is the 12-week companion to Peter Watts, Jr.''s memoir, Prodigal Father, the story of finding his biological father on Skid Row, an impoverished community in Downtown Los Angeles. In this book, Peter draws on the deepest parts of his life to show those who have experienced fatherlessness how to offer forgiveness.

Bifrost n° 103

release date: Jul 07, 2021
Bifrost n° 103
Six jours avant qu’il n’y ait plus d’argent, Méduse se prit un bon coup de pied au cul d’Encelade. Les thermistances embarquées enregistrèrent un pic soudain — 80°, 90°, 120° —, que suivirent un soubresaut du fond marin et un violent choc latéral sur la sonde. Il y eut un flash lumineux. Un océan incroyablement bouillant. Un fond marin rocheux basculant comme une table renversée par un géant furieux. Le canal se tut. La télémétrie se propagea dans l’obscur océan alcalin. Des relais amarrés à la sous-croûte captèrent ces chuchotements, qu’ils amplifièrent et transmirent. Cent quatre-vingts kilomètres plus loin à l’horizon, Euryale — accrochée par en dessous à la glace comme une énorme balane métallique — sépara le signal du bruit et le fit remonter à Stheno par un câble qui traversait six kilomètres de croûte regelée. Les mains orientées en porte-voix vers l’horizon fracturé, Stheno cria en direction de la Terre. Peter Watts Test d’écho

L'isola

release date: Dec 02, 2014
L'isola
Fantascienza - racconto lungo (46 pagine) - Un essere vivente grande come un sistema solare e con la massa di un piccolo pianeta. E intelligente. Premio Hugo 2010 Quella strana intermittenza nella luce della stella li aveva portati a una scoperta sconvolgente: c''era un essere vivente, lì nello spazio. Attorno al sole. Un sottile strato, non più di qualche millimetro, che circondava come una sfera tutta la stella, a 1,4 unità astronomiche di distanza. Un''essere vivente grande come un sistema solare e con la massa di un piccolo pianeta. E intelligente. Ma quando poteva essere intelligente un essere con una quantità di cellule cerebrali equivalente a quella di dieci miliardi di cervelli umani? Canadese, classe 1958, Peter Watts ha vinto il premio Hugo nel 2010 col racconto L’isola, ma c''era già arrivato vicino nel 2006 col romanzo Blindsight. Biologo specializzato nei mammiferi marini, Watts ha sfruttato le sue conoscenze scientifiche nel romanzo con cui ha esordito, Starfish, al quale ha dato finora tre seguiti.

Verbo Fatto Carne

release date: Oct 29, 2016
Verbo Fatto Carne
Per il presentimento dei beni di cui godrà l’anima dopo la morte, gli antichi credevano che il cigno, muto per natura, in prossimità del trapasso emettesse un canto dolcissimo. Ed è su questo canto che il dottor Russ Wescott decide di condurre i suoi studi su animali in fin di vita con lo scopo di carpire nuove rivelazioni su quegli attimi. Questi studi però nascondono un interesse personale con cui Lynne, la sua fidanzata, dovrà fare i conti. In questo racconto d’amore, poetico e struggente, il canadese Peter Watts mescola temi scottanti e di attualità come l’intelligenza artificiale, l’eutanasia e la pre-morte, ambendo a diventare una delle voci più autorevoli e affascinanti della letteratura di fantascienza e non solo.

Drone di morte

release date: Jul 15, 2014
Drone di morte
Fantascienza - racconto (18 pagine) - Piomba giù dal cielo come un angelo della morte portando distruzione. È un malak, un drone da guerra intelligente. Forse troppo Azrael è un malak, un drone da guerra. È intelligente, ma non è autocosciente. Osserva il mondo sotto di lui e lo divide in tre colori: verde, amici. Blu, neutrali. Rosso, nemici. Il rosso va distrutto. In casi dubbi si affida ai calcoli: se le perdite di Blu sono troppo elevate rispetto al valore dell''obiettivo, può decidere di annullare la missione. Azrael è intelligente. Acquisisce dati. Stabilisce correlazioni. Comincia a notare la frequenza dei suoi emessi dagli esseri umani, che per lui sono obiettivi biometrici. Nota come cambiando di frequenza e di complessità dopo un attacco. Nota come cambiano quando i biometrici sono di piccole dimensioni. E allora nuove variabili entrano nei calcoli, i calcoli diventano più complessi, e i risultati possono aprire scenari del tutto nuovi. Canadese, classe 1958, Peter Watts ha vinto il premio Hugo nel 2010 col racconto L’isola, ma c''era già arrivato vicino nel 2006 col romanzo Blindsight. Biologo specializzato nei mammiferi marini, Watts ha sfruttato le sue conoscenze scientifiche nel romanzo con cui ha esordito, Starfish, al quale ha dato finora tre seguiti.

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5

release date: Jun 01, 2021
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5
An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories published in 2020 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. Aliens, who believe that observing the stars causes dark energy, freeze intelligent beings to prevent the end of the universe in "Salvage," by Andy Dudak. In "You and Whose Army?," by Greg Egan, a hive mind is disturbed when one of four neurally linked brothers unexpectedly breaks his connection. Creatures that feed on time threaten Earth in "Time''s Own Gravity," by Alexander Glass. In "Brother Rifle," by Daryl Gregory, a Marine receives a brain implant to help him deal with a brain injury that has left him void of feelings and unable to make decisions. A married couple discover that their adopted daughter had been genetically modified before birth in "Invisible People," by Nancy Kress. "Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County," by Derek Künsken, is an epic story of a man and his illegitimate daughter separately trying to revolutionize AI and bioengineering from rural China. In "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar," by Rich Larson, a high-tech gene art heist in a future Spain is undertaken by a professional thief more interested in revenge than money. The obituary for an AI provides a list of advice for other advanced AIs in "50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know," by Ken Liu. In "A Mastery of German," by Marian Denise Moore, a biotech company is concerned with the ethics of passing memories between people as it develops this capability. Human explorers struggle to survive in the deadly, primeval forest of an alien planet in "Eyes of the Forest," by Ray Nayler. In "Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars," by Mercurio D. Rivera, a scientist creates a virtual world so other species can evolve and solve humankind''s problems in the real world. An ancient polymorph constructed being, fleeing a failed utopia, returns to a familiar world to find an old friend in "Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World," by Benjamin Rosenbaum. In "When God Sits in Your Lap," by Ian Tregillis, a fallen angel in a noir-like Los Angeles is hired by a man to persuade his wealthy mother to leave her new husband and keep his aerospace empire inheritance intact. An AI helps a family cope with the death of its father in "Mediation," by Cadwell Turnbull. In "Test 4 Echo," by Peter Watts, a damaged, semi-independent component on an autonomous undersea drone on Enceladus shows signs of emerging consciousness.

Legion

release date: Apr 08, 2011
Legion
NYC 2023. Terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city''s myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city''s systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. The battle is on against the lethal, armoured, bipedal war machines that stalk ravaged New York. The novel ties in directly to Crysis 2 and is penned by critically-acclaimed and Hugo Award-nominated author Peter Watts.

Clarkesworld

release date: Jun 01, 2013
Clarkesworld
Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during their fourth year. Included in this volume are twenty-four stories by visionary writers of short fiction, including Jay Lake, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts and more CONTENTS Introduction by Neil Clarke Between Two Dragons by Yoon Ha Lee The Cull by Robert Reed The Mermaids Singing Each to Each by Cat Rambo Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar Night, in Dark Perfection by Richard Parks The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy by Marissa Lingen Brief Candle by Jason K. Chapman All the King''s Monsters by Megan Arkenberg Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi Alone with Gandhari by Gord Sellar The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel January by Becca De La Rosa Messenger by J.M. Sidorova A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman My Father''s Singularity by Brenda Cooper Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia Spar by Kij Johnson Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente The Things by Peter Watts Clarkesworld Citizens - Official Census About Clarkesworld

Crysis: Legie

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Denmark Street

release date: Sep 15, 2023

Echopraxie

release date: Nov 16, 2023

Ślepowidzenie

release date: Jan 01, 2023

Rifteurs

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Rifteurs
Lenie Clarke a survécu à l''explosion nucléaire qui a détruit la station des abysses dans laquelle elle travaillait. De retour sur la côte américaine, elle découvre les ravages du tsunami qui a laissé sans domicile des millions de gens. Parqués derrière un immense mur par les autorités militaires, ils sont maintenus sous contrôle grâce à des tranquillisants administrés à leur insu. Dans le chaos ambiant, personne ne remarque Lenie, personne ne sait quel danger elle représente : porteuse de la bactérie Behemoth, elle est susceptible d''anéantir la vie sur terre. Mais bientôt, la jeune femme est repérée par Maelström, cette entité pensante et indépendante qu''on appelait autrefois Internet...

Stelle di mare

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Visión ciega

release date: Feb 20, 2009

Three Plays ... The Father, Miss Julia, Easter. Translated by Peter Watts

Béhémoth

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Béhémoth
Cinq ans après les événements de Rifteurs, le monde s''écroule. Lenie a rapporté du fond des abysses le terrible virus Béhémoth, qui détruit la biosphère terrestre et tue des millions de gens. Tout autour du globe règne le chaos. La plupart des gouvernements sont tombés ; partout, des guerres éclatent, des sectes suicidaires fleurissent et l''ancien réseau Internet est aux mains de monstres artificiels révérant Lenie comme la Madone du désastre. Dans une station au fond de l''océan, quelques privilégiés attendent un miracle. Mais Lenie est à leurs trousses...

Edna Walling and Her Garderns by Peter Watts

release date: Jan 01, 2008

The Rhodesian crisis in British and international politics, 1964 - 1965 /c

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Pathfinder Railtours Review

release date: Dec 01, 1992
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