Beyond the Rift
Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales from a highly controversial author explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in narratives that are by...
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Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales from a highly controversial author explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in narratives that are by turns dark, satiric, and introspective. Among these bold storylines: 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 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; and 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616961251 (1616961252)
Publish date: November 1st 2013
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
I’m trying this new thing, where I make some notes about every story in a collection instead of just hitting the highlights. Watts tends towards a specific set of themes in his writing. For starters, that we are not what our brains fool us into thinking we are. Next, that we are much more predicta...
Brainycat's 5 "B"s:blood: 4boobs: 0bombs: 3bondage: 0 blasphemy: 3Bechdel Test: FAILDeggan's Rule: FAILGay Bechdel Test: FAILPlease note: I don't review to provide synopses, I review to share a purely visceral reaction to books and perhaps answer some of the questions I ask when I'm contemplating i...
Science fiction is an incredibly diverse genre, both in terms of content and in terms of storytelling. At one end of the spectrum you have your pulp sci-fi, rollicking adventure stories that often skirt the boundaries of science to tell their fantastic tales. Further along the line, at the middle of...