Starfish
by Peter Watts
Publisher: Tor Books 1999
ISBN/ASIN: 0765315963
ISBN-13: 9780765315960
Number of pages: 343
Description:
Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift. Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. It's the temporary home of the maintenance crew of a geothermal energy plant--a crew made up of the damaged and dysfunctional flotsam of an overpopulated near-future earth.
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