Rifters Trilogy: Starfish (Series #1) (Paperback)

from ethayer

This is a favorite of mine, and an excellent example of hard, tech-focused SF. The story stayed with me a good long time after I put the book down, and the sequels could not come out fast enough for me. Sadly, I didn't think the second book of the three was up to snuff, and didn't add a lot to th...

from slothman

It's the mid-21st century, and humanity needs sources of energy that don't exacerbate global warming. One excellent spot for geothermal energy is the deep sea rifts where the continental plates meet. But if you have trouble finding mentally healthy people who want to be heavily cyborged to surviv...

from endersreads

I was drawn to Watt's Starfish because I have a deep-rooted Lovecraftian fear of the deeps--the ocean--water. I most certainly was not disappointed and am proud of my luck in finding this author all on my own. The severely damaged group of rifters--made up of rapists, psychotics, the abused, et c...

from hibiscustea

I found Starfish at the library one day while I was killing time. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. I ended up keeping the book out of the library until I could find my own copy, but even now I have a hard time describing what it is about Watts' prose that I find so electric. Starfish is n...

from irrhapsodi

Finished, and what a ride! All technobabble and psychology and integrating of several fields of science if one eerie, paranoid fiction drama that had me rooting for the psychos and fish. There are three books that come after this one, and I can't wait for that next one.It's easy to compare to tha...