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Peter Watts

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Peter Watts is a Canadian hard science fiction author and former marine biologist known for complex, scientifically rigorous novels like Blindsight, blending biology, neuroscience, and philosophy with deep-space exploration, often featuring non-human intelligence and survival themes, despite facing legal issues with US immigration. He holds a PhD in Zoology, worked extensively in marine mammal research, and now focuses on writing. 

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Bibliography

Series

Rifters Trilogy


A Science Fiction series (1999 - 2004)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Deep-sea cyberpunk with extinction breathing down humanity’s neck
  • Biotech apocalypse spiraling far beyond anyone’s control
  • Angry modified antiheroes carrying guilt like a weapon

Firefall


A Science Fiction series (2006 - 2014)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Alien contact through deeply inhuman human minds
  • Hard sci-fi warped by radical biotech evolution
  • Consciousness questioned in bleak deep-space pilgrimages

Standalone Fiction

Crysis

Crysis


Beyond the Rift

Beyond the Rift

Short story collection

The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Standalone Non-fiction

Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor

Little Stacks of Science Fiction

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