ピーター・ワッツ

It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? …

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea …

『ペール・ギュント』は、ヘンリック・イプセンが1867年に作った戯曲。韻文で書かれた。自由奔放なペール・ギュントが旅に出て年老いて帰ってくるまでの物語。全5幕。 元々は舞台上演を意図して書かれた作品ではなかったが、1876年2月24日、クリスチャニアの国民劇場で初演された。その際、イプセンの依頼でエドヴァルド・グリーグが劇音楽を作曲している。後にグリーグはこの音楽の中から4曲ずつを選び、2つの組曲に改作した。 …

Second in the Rifters Trilogy, Hugo Award-winning author Peter Watts' Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir. This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious …

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where …