{"product_id":"fold-catastrophes-9781616964672-new","title":"Fold Catastrophes","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with his first short story collection since 2013. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse. (Also, the healing power of revenge.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePeter Watts: Never cheerful. Always brilliant\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eJohn Scalzi, author of the \u003c\/i\u003eOld Man's War \u003ci\u003eseries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if a weaponized water supply reprograms pattern recognition in the brain, provoking violent rage at the sight of the Google logo. Or an accidental hive mind creates a global agenda to resurrect itself in the scant seconds between its emergence and dissolution? A steroidal jump gate-building ship attempts to survive passage through a red-giant sun by hiding inside an ice-giant planet. When \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c\/i\u003e is trying to colonize the sun, humans try to stop it. (Spoiler alert: Nobody comes off very well.) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his newest short fiction, alongside an introduction by Richard K. Morgan, Watts (\u003ci\u003eThe Freeze-Frame Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e) reserves whatever hope he has for whatever comes after humans.","brand":"TACHYON PUBN","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67649440153890,"sku":"9781616964672-new","price":18.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781616964672.jpg?v=1793347811","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/fold-catastrophes-9781616964672-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}