tailieunhanh - Starfish

Maybe things are getting out of hand, Lenie Clarke wonders. The others don't seem to care. She hears Lubin and Caraco talking up in the lounge, hears Brander trying to sing in the shower— as if we didn't all get enough abuse during our childhoods— and envies their unconcern. Everyone hated Scanlon— well, not hate, exactly, that's a bit strong— but there was at least a sort of— Contempt— That's the word. Contempt. Back on the surface, Scanlon ticked everyone. No matter what you said to him he'd nod, make little encouraging noises, do everything to convince you that he was on your side. Except actually agree with you, of. | Starfish Watts Peter Published 2000 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Source http 1 About Watts Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist. His first novel Starfish 2000 introduced Lenie Clarke a deepocean power-station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels Maelstrom 2001 Behemoth fi-Max 2004 and Behemoth Seppuku 2005 . The last two volumes comprise one novel published split into for commercial considerations. Starfish Maelstrom and Behemoth comprise a trilogy usually referred to as Rifters after the modified humans designed to work in deep-ocean environments. His latest book Blindsight released October 2006 has been described by Charles Stross as Imagine a neurobiology-obsessed version of Greg Egan writing a first contact with aliens story from the point of view of a zombie posthuman crewman aboard a starship captained by a vampire with not dying as the boobie prize. Watts has also been the Supervising Writer on the animated science fiction film and television project strange frame. Watts made his first two novels Behemoth and some short fiction available on his website under Creative Commons licence. Also available on Feedbooks for Watts Blindsight 2006 Behemoth 2007 Maelstrom 2001 Copyright Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and or check the copyright status in your country. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 For Susan Oshanek on the off chance that she s still alive. And for Laurie Channer who to my unexpectedly good fortune definitely is.