{"product_id":"fold-catastrophes","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 long-awaited short fiction collection. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse.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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301896524133,"sku":"9781616964672","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_45367c5c-1af8-486b-a162-72169e509960.jpg?v=1785621490","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/fold-catastrophes","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}