Starfish

Peter Watts

earliest edition we have, 1999 Tor Books, 2008 paperback 320 pages

Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts. So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually b...

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Editions we hold

Starfish edition · 2018 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 9781717002082
Starfish edition · 2014 · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 9781466881150
Starfish edition · 2012 · POCKET · 477 pages · 9782266220576
Starfish paperback · 2010 · Fleuve Noir · 9782265089488
Starfish (Rifters Trilogy) paperback · 2008 · Tor Books · 320 pages · 9780765315960
Starfish (Rifters Trilogy) paperback · 2000 · Tor Science Fiction · 384 pages · 9780812575859
Starfish edition · 1999 · Tor · 317 pages

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