Rifters Trilogy: Maelstrom (Series #2) (Paperback)

from francescadefreitas

The description of evolution in the maelstrom was fascinating, and the post-disaster world as well as Lenie's transformation into agent of mindless vengeance caught my imagination. But once again the violent details made me feel queasy, and I struggled to read onwards.

from lyrrael

This book was disappointing, even though I'd been warned that it was a totally different animal than Starfish. Now, I like a good apocalypse. I really like a good apocalypse, especially one borne on the back of a virus. So I was looking forward to this book, despite it being a radical change from...

from etimme

I really enjoyed Maelstrom. The second book in the Rifters trilogy took the speculative fiction I love from Charles Stross and William Gibson and totally geeked it out. The way Watts takes real science (complete with footnotes) and builds a story around it makes for a very compelling story, and I...

from slothman

So your team of misfits maintaining a geothermal power plant at the bottom of the ocean have come into contact with a really nasty microbe that has the potential to usurp the basic functions of Earth's biosphere and end life as we know it. Do you (a) inform them of the problem and put them in qua...

from etimme

I really enjoyed Maelstrom. The second book in the Rifters trilogy took the speculative fiction I love from Charles Stross and William Gibson and totally geeked it out. The way Watts takes real science (complete with footnotes) and builds a story around it makes for a very compelling story, and I...