Peter Watts · 1999 · Novel
Setting: near future
Series: Rifters — #1
On the Juan de Fuca Rift, a geothermal power station is crewed by people selected precisely because they are psychologically damaged: abuse survivors, sociopaths, and assorted dysfunctionals whose pre-existing trauma makes them uniquely suited to the crushing darkness and isolation of the deep ocean. As the rifters adapt to their environment in ways their employers never anticipated, a primordial microorganism capable of outcompeting all modern life threatens to escape the vent system. The corporation that put them there faces an impossible triage between its own creations and the biosphere they could destroy.
Source: manual
Tags: deep-seageothermal-energyabuse-survivorssmart-gelsexistential-biologycorporate-ethics
isbn: 0-312-86855-8
wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_(novel)
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