Free from Tor: Starfish by Peter Watts
By Paul Biba
I’ve been reading science fiction forever and it is rare that I come across hard SciFi as good as that in the Rifter series by Peter Watts. Watt’s, a Canadian PhD marine biologist, sets his series - Starfish, Behemoth and Maelstrom - under the ocean. I mention this because Tor’s free book today is Starfish. You can get it at tor.com and I suggest that you do. The rest of the series can be downloaded from Watt’s site www.rifters.com. They are all out of print, but I heartily recommend his latest book, which is still in print, Blindsight. It’s a book about intelligence without sentience. Is sentience really necessary?
May 16th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Paul, would it be worth contacting Peter Watts to see if he’d share how well, or otherwise, his site’s tip jar has worked out?
May 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I didn’t see where the out of print titles were available on his website, could someone point me in the right direction?
May 16th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I neither managed to find Starfish at http://www.tor.com (I even tried the sign-up thingy, but it refuses to work), nor did I find any downloads at http://www.rifters.com.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Here’s the url. Just click on the book. PDF, HTML or Mobipocket.
http://www.rifters.com./real/shorts.htm
May 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Paul,
Thank you for the link.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Peter’s books are CC and also avaliable packaged for cell phones at http://www.booksinmyphone.com