Peter Watts

The multi-award winning Infinity Project undertakes its seventh and final voyage in the imagination of the finest science fiction authors alive…Infinity’s EndHumanity has made the universe home. On the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the asteroid fields, deep in space, under the surface of planets, in the ruins of fallen civilisations, in the flush of new creation: life finds a way.From intelligent velociraptors to digital ghosts; from a crèche on an asteroid to an artist using a star system as a canvas, this is a future where Earth’s children have adapted to every nook and cranny of existence.This is life on the edge of the possible.Featuring astonishing tales from Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Naomi Kritzer, Paul McAuley, Seanan McGuire, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Justina Robson, Kelly Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts, Fran Wilde and Nick Wolven.

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 each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code-and unavoidable casualties.

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 each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code-and unavoidable casualties.

"This-THIS-is the cutting edge of science fiction." -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered CarbonHow 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 each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code-and unavoidable casualties. Note from the publisher: The red letters in the print edition (highlighted letters in the e-book) indicate special bonus content.

Inoplanetnyj razum vstrechaetsja s nastojaschimi monstrami v Antarktide. Odinokaja zhenschina, promoknuv pod prolivnym dozhdem, nachinaet oschuschat strannye izmenenija v tele. Issledovatelskij zond na Entselade neozhidanno dlja issledovatelej obretaet razum, a pervyj kontakt s inoj tsivilizatsiej mozhet sostojatsja kak v glubinakh kosmosa, tak i prjamo na Zemle, gde obitaet nemalo obladajuschikh soznaniem suschestv, kotorykh chelovek do pory do vremeni prosto ne zamechal. Kiborg, lishennyj zhalosti, prinimaet samoe ratsionalnoe i etichnoe reshenie na Zemle, a v boevom avtonomnom drone prosypaetsja sovest. Vse eto i mnogoe drugoe vy vstretite v rasskazakh Pitera Uottsa, napisannykh bolee chem za tridtsat let. Zdes strogost nauchnoj mysli sosedstvuet s vyverennym stilem, a paradoksalnye sjuzhety - s aforistichnostju sloga. Eto miry, v kotorykh po-novomu prelomljaetsja tvorchestvo odnogo iz samykh mrachnykh i neobychnykh pisatelej, rabotajuschikh v zhanre nauchnoj fantastiki.

V 2082 godu chelovechestvo ubedilos, chto ono ne odinoko vo Vselennoj. Beschislennye razvedyvatelnye zondy prisheltsev svetjaschejsja pautinoj okutali Zemlju. Sgorev v atmosfere, oni uspeli peredat signal za predely Solnechnoj sistemy. Na ustanovlenie kontakta s vnezemnoj tsivilizatsiej napravlen korabl "Tezej" s komandoj iz luchshikh spetsialistov v svoej oblasti. No, kogda issledovateli doberutsja do tseli, oni pojmut, chto samye neverojatnye fantazii ob inoplanetnom razume merknut po sravneniju s realnostju, i na kon postavlena sudba Zemli i vsego chelovechestva.

How would first contact--on earth, in space, on another planet--transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth? What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the depths of space? Or . . .Life--beyond us.Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute presents fifty-four original SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each speculative story is followed by a professional essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of the story and providing a new window into the cutting-edge knowledge about exploration for life in the universe.SF STORIES BY: Eugen Bacon, Gregory Benford, Renan Bernardo, Jana Bianchi, Tobias S. Buckell, Eric Choi, Julie E. Czerneda, Tessa Fisher, Simone Heller, Valentin D. Ivanov, Mary Robinette Kowal, Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller), Geoffrey A. Landis, Rich Larson, Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao), Lucie Lukačovičov , Premee Mohamed, G. David Nordley, Malka Older, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Tom s Petr sek, Brian Rappatta, Arula Ratnakar, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Bogi Tak cs, Peter Watts, and B. Zelkovich.SCIENCE ESSAYS BY: Jacques Arnould, William Bains, Jos A. Caballero, Dimitra Demertzi, Martina Dimoska, Tessa Fisher, Dennis H ning, Valentin D. Ivanov, Fabian Klenner, Nina Kopacz, Geoffrey A. Landis, Natuschka Lee, Ania Losiak, Stephen Francis Mann, Connor Martini, Tony Milligan, Philippe Nauny, Julie Nov kov , Erik Persson, Tom s Petr sek, Joanna Piotrowska, Giovanni Poggiali, Amedeo Romagnolo, Stefano Sandrelli, Floris van der Tak, Jan Toman, Sheri Wells-Jensen, and Raymond M. WheelerINTRODUCTION BY: Stephen BaxterFOREWORD BY: Julie Nov kov AFTERWORDS BY: Wolf D. Geppert; Lucas K. Law & Susan ForestEDITED BY: Julie Nov kov , Lucas K. Law & Susan ForestPrevious anthologies by Laksa Media (Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise, Shades Within Us, Seasons Between Us) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire.

Animae Mundi Dialogues With Earth is probably best described as a Book of Shadows. It's a memoir of sorts complete with poetry, dreams, visions, and metaphysical experiences. It's also part science textbook that includes ideas to live more lightly on our shared planet. The original art is pen drawn and a few are colourised using pencils. The technique starts with a random shape and lines evolve from there creating intricate layers of imagery. This book does not fit neatly into any genre but illustrates how the author lives a spiritual life that treats our planet with love and respect. There are infinite ways to connect with Anima Mundi, Earth's Soul, and every small act of respect adds up. Systemic change happens one mind at a time so whether you will be inspired to create a rain garden, start a compost pile for the first time, or spend more time outside singing and talking and dancing with Earth, She is begging us to begin that change. If you cannot seem to find the means of expressing deep reverence for the Soul of the World perhaps you'll find something that resonates on these pages and begin the process of integrating your own story. Anima Mundi has captivated our imaginations for millennia though modern 'civilised' humans seem to be in a state of natural unconsciousness. On the other hand, Soul Consciousness, like the colours of the visible light spectrum, is much more than ROYGBIV. Like the spectrum, our journey of growth and discovery is gradual, consisting of infinite transitions to the next frequency. This book also uncovers the lifelong Journey of healing work through personal experiences of ritual, journaling, Dream Work, and Shadow Work. And there's always more work to do. None of us are perfect yet that shouldn't stop us from trying to be better every day. Like all Souls, beautiful Anima Mundi is immortal and whether humans will re-evolve into a species that has meaningful dialogue with Her remains to be seen. This book is written from the mystical Pagan perspective of Animism which is a spiritual knowing that natural phenomena and 'inanimate' objects like rocks are alive and possess characteristics of consciousness such as intention, desire, and feeling. As all things are connected, the Universe is also alive and conscious. It's ALL alive.

Animae Mundi Dialogues With Earth is probably best described as a Book of Shadows. It's a memoir of sorts complete with poetry, dreams, visions, and metaphysical experiences. It's also part science textbook that includes ideas to live more lightly on our shared planet. The original art is pen drawn and a few are colourised using pencils. The technique starts with a random shape and lines evolve from there creating intricate layers of imagery. This book does not fit neatly into any genre but illustrates how the author lives a spiritual life that treats our planet with love and respect. There are infinite ways to connect with Anima Mundi, Earth's Soul, and every small act of respect adds up. Systemic change happens one mind at a time so whether you will be inspired to create a rain garden, start a compost pile for the first time, or spend more time outside singing and talking and dancing with Earth, She is begging us to begin that change. If you cannot seem to find the means of expressing deep reverence for the Soul of the World perhaps you'll find something that resonates on these pages and begin the process of integrating your own story. Anima Mundi has captivated our imaginations for millennia though modern 'civilised' humans seem to be in a state of natural unconsciousness. On the other hand, Soul Consciousness, like the colours of the visible light spectrum, is much more than ROYGBIV. Like the spectrum, our journey of growth and discovery is gradual, consisting of infinite transitions to the next frequency. This book also uncovers the lifelong Journey of healing work through personal experiences of ritual, journaling, Dream Work, and Shadow Work. And there's always more work to do. None of us are perfect yet that shouldn't stop us from trying to be better every day. Like all Souls, beautiful Anima Mundi is immortal and whether humans will re-evolve into a species that has meaningful dialogue with Her remains to be seen. This book is written from the mystical Pagan perspective of Animism which is a spiritual knowing that natural phenomena and 'inanimate' objects like rocks are alive and possess characteristics of consciousness such as intention, desire, and feeling. As all things are connected, the Universe is also alive and conscious. It's ALL alive.

Tsivilizatsija pokoitsja na plechakh izgoev. I kogda ej nuzhen kto-to, chtoby upravljat energostantsijami, raspolozhennymi na glubine trekh kilometrov v Tikhom okeane, ona ischet osobykh ljudej dlja programmy rifterov. Tekh, kto prisposoblen k opasnoj okruzhajuschej srede, tekh, kto nastolko privyk k travmam i khronicheskomu stressu, chto zhizn na kraju podvodnogo vulkana stanet dlja nikh oblegcheniem. No sredi utesov i vpadin khrebta Khuan de Fuka est veschi, kotorye nikto ne ozhidal najti, a dostatochnoe kolichestvo davlenija dazhe privychnuju ko vsemu zhertvu prevratit v cheloveka, sdelannogo iz stali. No kogda naverkhu ponimajut, chto sluchilos, izgoi i otverzhennye uzhe derzhat v rukakh tajnu, sposobnuju pogubit ves mir.Dlja obespechenija bezopasnosti tsivilizatsii na energostantsiju v Tikhom okeane trebuetsja gruppa ljudej, sposobnaja rabotat na glubine trekh kilometrov, v uslovijakh, ne normalnykh dlja obychnogo cheloveka. Globalnyj energeticheskij konglomerat vybiraet dlja etikh tselej neobychnuju rabochuju gruppu, prisposoblennuju k khronicheskomu stressu i opasnoj okruzhajuschej srede, - ljudej s tjazhelymi psikhicheskimi travmami. Kazhdogo iz nikh modifitsirujut dlja raboty na kraju podvodnogo vulkana. No sredi utesov i vpadin khrebta Khuan de Fuka est veschi, kotorye nikto ne ozhidal najti...Perevodchik: Kudrjavtsev Nikolaj

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight 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. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist--an informational topologist with half his mind gone--as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find.

With over fifty unpredictable, scathing, hilarious, and more-than-occasionally moving essays about science, politics, family, pop culture, religion and more, Peter Watts - Hugo Award-winning author, former marine biologist, and "angry sentient tumor" (via Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous) - shows why he is the savage dystopian optimist whom you can't look away from ... even when you probably should.[STARRED REVIEW] "Irreverent, self-depreciating, profane, and funny, showcasing a Hunter S. Thompson-esque studied rage and dissatisfaction with the status quo combined with the readability and humor of John Scalzi." -BooklistWhich of the following is true?Peter Watts is banned from the U.S.Watts almost died from flesh-eating bacteria.A schizophrenic man living in Watts's backyard almost set the house on fire.Watts was raised by Baptists who really sucked at giving presents.Peter Watts said to read this book. Or else.With Watts's infamous penchant for blunt, honest, and deep reflection, these retrospective essays provide a view inside his head and even into his heart.

Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 100,000 items, it contained everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. Exploring the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, Santo Domingo’s collection contained work by diverse figures including Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more. This extraordinary collection is vividly documented in Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.

Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere – a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks – but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't. 'A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good' Charles Stross. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!... It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade... It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It's off the scale... F**king awesome!' Richard Morgan. 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher.

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.

Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . . The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and made him a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories by Greg Egan, Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more!

Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere – a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks – but not to us. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't. 'A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good' Charles Stross. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!... It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade... It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. It's off the scale... F**king awesome!' Richard Morgan. 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher.

Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter's The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.