Peter Watts’ remarkable collection BEYOND THE RIFT is a Kindle Daily Deal for Sunday, December 23.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

• Featuring the 2010 Hugo Award winner  “The Island”  and the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner “The Things”
  
• 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Nominee

“A new book from crazy genius Watts is always cause for celebration—and this collection of short stories brings together some of his greatest work”
—io9 

Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien.

The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms.

Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.

“Canadian author Peter Watts is a biologist by training and a visionary by inclination. His novels are hard-edged yet coolly psychedelic extrapolations of our gene-modded future. Possessing the stern moral acuity of James Tiptree, he also exhibits the intellectual zest of Arthur C. Clarke…. His killer opening sentences (“First Contact was supposed to solve everything”; “Wescott was glad when it finally stopped breathing”) are rabbit holes to strange futures.”

—Paul Di Fillipo, The Barnes & Noble Review

“From the award-winning author of the Rifters trilogy (Starfish; Maelstrom; Behemoth) comes a collection that demonstrates Watts’s skill with short fiction.”
—Library Journal

“[A] sharp and incisive stylist with a rather tragic, if clear-eyed, view of human nature, and the capacity for some remarkable hard-SF inventions.”
—Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

“[T]here can be no denying Watts’s skills as a writer.”
—Publishers Weekly

“”…deep, daring, and deliberately thoughtful. He’s an author who isn’t afraid to stare off into the bleakness of space and ponder our own insignificance, but one who also isn’t afraid to look inward and question the very core of what makes us human…Beyond the Rift is deep, daring, and deliberately thoughtful”
—Beauty in Ruins

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Things
• The Island
• The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald
• A Word for Heathens
• Home
• The Eyes of God
• Flesh Made Word
• Nimbus
• Mayfly (with Derryl Murphy)
• Ambassador
• Hillcrest vs. Velikovsky
• Repeating the Past
• A Niche

AFTERWORD

• Outtro: En Route to Dystopia with the Angry Optimis

For more info about BEYOND THE RIFT, visit the Tachyon page

Cover art by Hugh Sicotte

Design by Elizabeth Story