Peter Watts’ acclaimed collection of award-winning short stories Beyond the Rift is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, February 4, 2015.

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

“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, including his mind-altering retelling of The Thing called
“The Things.” Known for his pitch-black views on human nature, and a
breathtaking ability to explore the weird side of evolution and animal
behavior, Watts is one of those writers who gets into your brain and
remains lodged there like an angry, sentient tumor.”
—io9 (Fall 2013 Must-Read Pick)

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.”
—Gene 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

“5/5 Stars I’m not usually one for short story collections; normally I
usually like one or two stories and then chuck the rest. But this one
is freaking amazing. One story better than the next…It is far and away
the best science fiction collection I’ve read in years.”
—Among the Wreckage

“A wonderful collection of unique stories, Beyond the Rift had all the cogs in my brain whirring at full power.”
—My Shelf Confessions

“Excellent stories that highlight the author’s versatility and strengths in writing science fiction.”
—SF Signal

“Holding himself to a higher standard of storytelling, Watts uses the
effects of mainstream sci-fi, yet continually aims at something deeper
in humanity and society’s soul.”
—Speculiction

“ [Beyond the Rift] was provocative and extremely well
written. This is one of those collections that I think benefits from
reflection after each story, and most of the stories will cry out for
rereading in the future. Excellent collection – Very Highly
Recommended.”
—She Walks Softly

“Watts ranges from huge-scale ideas (“The Island,” with a living
membrane surrounding a star) to the immediate (what if airport scanners
grew sophisticated enough to detect even potential criminals, in “The
Eyes of God”)? He asks the questions that the best science fiction
writers ask, but that the rest of us may be afraid to answer.”
—Chicago Tribune

“…one of the best short story collections I have ever read. Every story is engaging, interesting, and thought provoking.”
—The MT Void

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

Cover by Hugh Sicotte.

Design by Elizabeth Story.