Description
It's the eve of the 22nd century and the beginning of the end. Humanity splinters into strange new forms with every heartbeat: hive-minds coalesce, rapture-stricken, speaking in tongues; soldiers forgo consciousness for combat efficiency; a nightmare human subspecies has been genetically resurrected; half the population has retreated into the ersatz security of a virtual environment called Heaven. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to reveal itself. Daniel Bruks has turned his back on it all, taking refuge in the Oregon desert. As an unaugmented, baseline human he's an irrelevance, a living fossil for whom extinction beckons. But he's about to find himself an unwilling pilgrim on a voyage to the heart of the solar system that will bring the fractured remnants of mankind to the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!... it puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade... It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It's off the scale... F**king awesome!' Richard Morgan. 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Asher.
On the eve of the 22nd century, under the watchful eye of an alien presence, mankind faces the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought.
About the Author
PETER WATTS is a science fiction writer and a reformed marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy, a winner of the Aurora, Hugo and Shirley Jackson awards and a Locus, Sturgeon and Campbell award nominee. Watts lives in Toronto. Visit www.rifters.com
Reviews
State of the art. Smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one -- Neal Ascher
If you read one SF novel this year, read this one -- Richard Morgan
Book Information
ISBN 9781784080488
Author Peter Watts
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Firefall
On the eve of the 22nd century, under the watchful eye of an alien presence, mankind faces the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought.
About the Author
PETER WATTS is a science fiction writer and a reformed marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy, a winner of the Aurora, Hugo and Shirley Jackson awards and a Locus, Sturgeon and Campbell award nominee. Watts lives in Toronto. Visit www.rifters.com
Reviews
State of the art. Smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one -- Neal Ascher
If you read one SF novel this year, read this one -- Richard Morgan
Book Information
ISBN 9781784080488
Author Peter Watts
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Firefall
