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Peter Watts

Canada (b.1958)

Peter Watts calls himself "a reformed marine biologist." Canada's Globe and Mail calls him "one of the very best hard-SF writers alive." The two volumes of ßehemoth complete the trilogy he began with Starfish and Maelstrom. He is currently writing an unrelated literary novel involving space vampires for Tor. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Awards: Jackson (2011), Hugo (2010) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Rifters
   1. Starfish (1999)
   2. Maelstrom (2001)
   3. Behemoth: B-Max (2004)
   4. Behemoth: Seppuku (2005)

Firefall
   1. Blindsight (2006)
   2. Echopraxia (2014)
   3. The Colonel (2014)

Novels

Behemoth (2017)
The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018)

Collections

   Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (1986)
   Beyond the Rift (2013)
   Peter Watts Is An Angry, Sentient Tumor (2019)

Series contributed to

Crysis
Crysis: Legion (2011)

Books containing stories by Peter Watts

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8 (2024)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 8)
edited by
Allan Kaster

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One (2023)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7 (2023)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 7)
edited by
Allan Kaster

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Awards

	2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction : The Things
	2010 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : The Island

Award nominations

	2019 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Freeze-Frame Revolution
	2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Freeze-Frame Revolution
	2015 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Colonel
	2015 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Collateral
	2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Echopraxia
	2015 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Echopraxia
	2014 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Beyond the Rift
	2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Things
	2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Things
	2011 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Things
	2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Island
	2007 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Blindsight
	2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Blindsight
	2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Blindsight
	2007 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Blindsight
	2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Maelstrom
	2002 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Maelstrom
	2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Starfish
	2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Starfish
	2000 Aurora Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Starfish

Peter Watts recommends

Exordia (2024)
Seth Dickinson
"Conceptually mindblowing. Viscerally horrific. Hofstadter meets Lovecraft during a really bad acid trip, but better written."

Leech (2022)
Hiron Ennes
"If you've ever wondered what would happen if David Cronenberg and Edgar Allen Poe bumped into each other at the same parasitological conference, here's your answer."

Rosebud (2022)
Paul Cornell
"A scream disguised as a giggle. Reading Rosebud is like going on an absurdist romp through a sunlit meadow with Douglas Adams, only to suddenly realize that you're deep in the forest and ol' Dougie has just slipped a knife between your ribs."

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