8th August, 2007
Learn to Swim
Starfish by Peter Watts.
This is a good book. Maybe not super-fantastic, but still a satisfying read. Written by a marine biologist, this is a hard sci-fi book that doesn’t drown you in the physics of azimuths and Lagrange points and other math nerdery. No, my friends, this is a book for the People.
Set in the not-so-distant future, the story focuses on a group of people who have been hired to work at the bottom of the ocean, tending power generators which reside on the tectonic rifts of the Pacific. This book also has elements of a psychological thriller, as being stuck under thousands of feet of water, completely isolated and in total darkness tends to require certain… personality quirks. Also introduced towards the end of the book (the first in what I hope turns out to be an excellent trilogy) is the Bad Guy, whom I shall not discuss further to avoid spoiling things. A climactic ending, but only in the sense that something bigger has just begun, I was quite pleased. The book, it’s benthorific.
4.5/5 gogs.
Posted at 6:14 pm | Comment (1)
On September 7, 2007 at 13:38 GogBlog » In Brief said:
September 7, 2007 at 13:38
[...] an aside, I also polished off Watts’ Rifters Trilogy which began with Starfish. I’m giving the rest of the series a mixed review. Maelstrom, the second book, while not as [...]