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1. Peter Watts - Contracting Iris: (Short Stories); ... the Peter Watts take on John Carpenter's 'The Thing' (titled 'The Things'). And on the other hand this feels very up to date, and 'now' - with a pandemic, with road blocks and provisions to stay indoors. with ...; Created on 24 July 2023
2. Peter Watts - Critical Mass: (Short Stories); Well, here's a refreshing and surprising change - not only is Critical Mass by Peter Watts not in itself a dystopian story (although it's set in a world with pandemics, and the climate going to pieces - ...; Created on 10 November 2022
3. Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: (Review); Some books you pick by their cover, and some for their author, or their topic. This one, even if I wouldn't automatically reach for it anyway due to it being by Peter Watts, I would have picked up for its ...; Created on 09 March 2020
4. Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution: (Review); ... yet... Peter Watts is an award-winning Canadian hard SF author, a lapsed marine biologist, a survivor of necrotising fasciitis, and a convicted felon (just ask the TSA) who will not enter the US again. ...; Created on 17 July 2018
5. Peter Watts - Collateral: (Short Stories); Now, finally available to read without having to buy a collection with some much more questionable content - I present you with what I feel to be a classic Peter Watts 'Military SF' (this definitely deserves ...; Created on 08 August 2016
6. Peter Watts - Giants: (Short Stories); Ah, joy of joys - here's a Peter Watts story, set in his Sunflowers universe (he is apparently working on a novel set in it. For Christmas, pretty please? ) This is the same universe in which the Hugo-Award-winning ...; Created on 05 November 2015
7. Peter Watts - Malak: (Short Stories); For reasons mainly to do with my brain, and what's current in it, I'd like to point you to Peter Watts' story Malak. Malak is a drone. More so, it's an autonomous drone, and is being trained (there seem to ...; Created on 17 July 2015
8. Peter Watts - Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes: (Review); ... I know. Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes is the first short story collection by Peter Watts, published on the heel of the critically acclaimed novel Starfish, and prior to the (differently marvelous) Maelstrom. ...; Created on 21 May 2015
9. Peter Watts - Echopraxia: (Review); ... the first novel? Peter Watt's answer is by expanding the scope of players for humanity's future (which might not contain much humanity as we know it), and by adding religion to the mix – as he points out, ...; Created on 21 September 2014
10. Peter Watts – Beyond the Rift: (Review); Peter Watts is a Canadian hard SF author and “reformed marine biologist” (his own words), with 5 published Novels (one of them published in two volumes for ‘commercial considerations’) and 2 collections ...; Created on 19 December 2013
11. Peter Watts - Behemoth: (Review); Now here's a book with an interesting/messed up history – Behemoth is the final, (in)famous instalment in Peter Watts' highly rated Rifters series (Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth). It was, against its author' ...; Created on 15 January 2013
12. Peter Watts - Starfish: (Review); This is a re-post of an old review of Peter Watts' Starfish, previously published on the now-defunct Diversebooks site. Peter Watts is a Canadian Bio/Hard SF Author, with 6 novels, a collection of stories, ...; Created on 06 June 2012
13. Peter Watts - Blindsight: (Editor's Pick); Created on 26 December 2010
14. Peter Watts - Blindsight: (Review); Blindsight is Peter Watts' first stand-alone novel after his much-praised 'Rifters' trilogy. The book was shortlisted for the Hugo Award, but lost out in a rather strong field. It also is Peter's first foray ...; Created on 22 November 2010
15. Peter Watts – Maelstrom: (Editor's Pick); Created on 19 June 2010
16. Peter Watts – Maelstrom: (Review); Here's a review for Maelstrom, the 2nd book in the Rifters series by Peter Watts. I wrote this some time ago, and it's purely co-incidence that this reaches the top of the pile just as Peter has been convicted ...; Created on 23 March 2010
17. Isabel Fall - I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter: (Short Stories); ... piece of near-future fiction, set in a oddly broken US, where the military have shaped and used sexual identity to forge a closer bond between the weapon and its pilot - so much in the vein of a Peter ...; Created on 11 February 2022
18. Sarena Ulibarri – Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters: (Review); ... a departure given the sequence I read this in, coming straight of the dark tail end of Peter Watt's blogging ('Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumour'. Recommended, if pessimistic about the times we live ...; Created on 09 January 2021
19. Lockdown, or The Wages of Sin: (Short Stories); ... of it. Best spent 1$ of your life I reckon). But, especially, Peter Watts' contribution, The Last of the Redmond Billionaires Look after yourself. Be kind, to yourself and others. Be safe. Together ...; Created on 20 December 2020
20. Wole Talabi – Incomplete Solutions: (Review); ... the carrier for something new, and maybe better. A bit like Peter Watt's take on The Thing, except not based on conflict with the new. So, as a story, nothing like Peter's taken on The Thing. Believe me, ...; Created on 19 December 2019

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