Maelstrom: Rifters Trilogy, Book 2 by Peter Watts, Alison Ewing (Narrator)Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 740.9MBOverview: This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who’d inadvertently released it from […]
Blindsight by Peter Watts (Firefall #1)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 321kbOverview: Two months since the stars fell… Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. […]
The Colonel by Peter Watts Requirements: .ePUB reader, 781 KBOverview: Colonel Moore is in trouble. His wife has retreated into a virtual heaven and his son remains missing after joining an extrasolar mission to track down an alien race. He is presently tasked by his superiors with the threat assessment of hived human intelligences, one […]
The Island (Sunflower Cycle #1) by Peter WattsRequirements: .ePUB reader, 129 KBOverview: “The Island” is a standalone novelette. It is also one episode in a projected series of connected tales (a l’a Stross’s Accellerando or Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles) that start about a hundred years from now and extends unto the very end of time. […]
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts Requirements: .MP3 reader, 140 mbOverview: She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with […]
