Peter Watts · 2004 · Novel
Setting: near future
Series: Rifters — #3
Five years after the apocalypse, the architects of catastrophe and the weapons they built are entombed together in Atlantis, a deep-sea refuge on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Corpses (corporate executives) and rifters (modified deep-sea divers) maintain a brittle truce while the surface world burns. When a new strain of the biosphere-killing microbe appears inside their sanctuary, old grievances reignite and the colony tears itself apart. Meanwhile, on shore, the last lawbreaker, freed from all moral restraint, wages a private war to ensure that salvation never arrives, because a world in perpetual crisis is the only one that will tolerate a monster with his appetites.
Source: manual
Tags: deep-sea-refugepost-apocalypticsociopathybiological-warfaremoral-pharmacologytribalismpower-corruption
isbn: 0-765-30721-5
wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behemoth_(novel)
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