Reddit reviews Starfish (Rifters Trilogy (1))

Sounds like they should just send people who are already insane

Starfish by Peter Watts

Oh let's definitely give him science fiction about the ocean, good idea.

Starfish trilogy by Peter Watts... love this guy, and like these novels. I like echopraxia series more, but these are solid

Glad you liked it. Echopraxia is the sequal to his book Blindsight, which is a story about aliens, vampires and post singularity humans. Because Peter Watts is a biologist and only a somewhat recent author his sci fi writings reflect that. His perspective as a biologist yields impressive insights, and surprisingly beautiful prose, often philosophical in nature yet somehow not preachy.

Starfish is also highly enjoyable if you like deep ocean stuff. Peter Watts does what great sci fi authors are capable of, they take known concepts turn them on their head and allow you to look at them from a completely new perspective.

Starfish - some very interesting sci-fi. In this series, there are companies that are siphoning energy from the geothermal rifts at the bottom of the ocean. Normal humans cannot survive the pressure, so they have modified humans by replacing one of their lungs with a gill-like rebreather, so when they go into the water, they can empty their lungs of air. While down there, they discover a new form of life. The series has some very interesting allusions to internet memes and many forms of reality being replaced with information technology. It reminds me of Snow Crash.

Starfish by Peter Watts.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0765315963/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1

" 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 be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going, back on shore."

Peter Watts Rifters Trilogy features humans who've highly adapted themselves to be able to live and work in the abyssal depths. Starfish is the first novel.

I found some strange books in my school library, including Starfish.

http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Rifters-Trilogy-Peter-Watts/dp/0765315963

It's basically horror/sci-fi with its mix of 50,000 leagues under the sea and Resident Evil...and sex...so much sex. Strange find, but I loved it as a 13 year old. Haha.

I loved that show when I was younger.

There's a book called Starfish where they do the whole "cyberpunk" at the bottom of the ocean thing. I've always wanted to read it. And here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Peter-Watts/dp/0765315963/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393876210&sr=1-2&keywords=Starfish