Tap, the online entertainment component of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, included the new Peter Watts collection Beyond the Rift as part of their “Holiday Gift Ideas 2013: Guide to 100 best books for readers young and old.”

Hard-hitting sci-fi stories about human-alien encounters, brain programming and religion, including Watts’ brilliant re-imagining of “The Thing” from the so-called monster’s point of view.

For more on Beyond the Rift, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Hugh Sicotte. Design by Elizabeth Story.