{"product_id":"beyond-the-rift-9781616961251","title":"Beyond the Rift","description":"Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Thing\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Watts is a science-fiction writer and a marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy (\u003ci\u003eStarfish\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBehemoth\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Island and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTen Monkeys, Ten Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the Aurora, Hugo, and Shirley Jackson awards. Watts lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tachyon Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669783744786,"sku":"9781616961251","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8c0d14a-ac84-453e-a6a4-74cfe9d53df1.jpg?v=1733766239","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-the-rift-9781616961251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}