Happy birthday to the extraordinary Hugo Award winner Peter Watts
A former marine biologist and according to the US Department of Homeland Security, a convicted felon and terrorist, Peter Watts’ acclaimed debut novel Starfish (1999) was named a New York Times Notable Book. He followed that success with the next three volumes of the Rifters series: Maelstrom (2001), Behemoth: B-Max (2004), and Behemoth: Seppuku (2005). Blindsight (2006) has become a core text in diverse undergraduate courses ranging from philosophy to neuropsych. The sidequel Echopraxia appeared in 2014. Crysis: Legion (2011) novelized the game Crysis 2.
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His numerous shorter works including the Shirley Jackson Award-winner “The Things” (2010) have been collected in Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (2001), BEYOND THE RIFT (2013), the Polish Odtrutka na optymizm (2013), the French Au-delà du gouffre (2016), PETER WATTS IS AN ANGRY SENTIENT TUMOR (2019), and the Russsian Революция в стоп-кадрах (2021). For the Spring 2000 issue of On Spec, Watts produced the frontispiece “Alien Intents” as well as cover to Firefall (2014), which collected Blindsight and Echopraxia.
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Starting with the Hugo Award-winning “The Island” (2009), Watts began the Sunflower Cycle about the voyage of a jump gate-building ship Eriophora. Their stories continued in “Hotshot” (2014), “Giants” (2014), and 2018′s acclaimed THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION.
All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Peter a happy birthday!