Behemoth, Peter Watts
Behemoth, Peter Watts
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Behemoth
Seppuku

Author: Peter Watts

Narrator: Alison Ewing

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/29/2022


Synopsis

Lenie Clarke has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.

For five years, she and her bionic brethren have hidden in the mountains of the deep Atlantic. The facility they commandeered was more than a secret station on the ocean floor. Atlantis was an exit strategy for the corporate elite, a place where the world's Movers and Shakers had hidden from the doomsday microbe ßehemoth. For five years "rifters" and "corpses" have lived in a state of uneasy truce, united by fear of the outside world.

An unknown enemy hunts them through the crushing darkness of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ßehemoth has found them already. The fragile armistice between the rifters and their one-time masters has exploded into all-out war, and not even the legendary Lenie Clarke can take back the body count.

Billions have died since she loosed ßehemoth upon the world. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably to the very floor of the world, and Lenie Clarke must return to confront the mess she made.

But even after five years in pitch-black purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way—and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds . . .

About Peter Watts

Peter Watts is the author of the Rifters Trilogy and lives in Toronto, Ontario.


Reviews

коротко: Уоттс, как обычно, великий мыслитель — и посредственный писатель. суть третьей части такова. совесть в сеттинге «Рифтеров» (ну и реальности, настаивает Уоттс) — это биохимия. и есть герои — сверхлюди, наделённые всякого рода экстраординарными способностями, которыми их владельцы и начальники......more

3.0 stars I loved the first book but the later books in series aren't working for me. The story has just gotten unedited and these final books need to be edited down.......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I love the direction this series has taken and I love the flawed characters that inhabit these pages. Without giving anything away, we're back underwater with the claustrophobia and sense of urgency that was present in book one and more harsh truths have been revealed. This is great science fiction......more

This was a difficult book to read; it was dark, nasty, brutish, and long. First off, Peter Watts seems to specialize in these claustrophobic, psychological dramas involving broken people. In Blindsight, he had a small crew (with a vampire as its leader!) making an expedition to a neutron star, to ma......more

This is the first half of the third book in the Rifters trilogy. Peter Watts' style isn't for everyone ... it's sparse and really pretty dark ... but I really enjoy his books. He has a fairly bleak vision of the future, and his characters aren't what you would typically consider likeable, but I thin......more