{"product_id":"fold-catastrophes-9781616964672","title":"Fold Catastrophes","description":"\u003cp\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 Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse.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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Watts: Never cheerful. Always brilliant.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―John Scalzi, author of the Old Man’s War series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 something is trying to colonize the sun, humans try to stop it. (Spoiler alert: Nobody comes off very well.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his newest short fiction, alongside an introduction by Richard K. Morgan, Watts (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) reserves whatever hope he has for whatever comes after humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Peter Watts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 15 Oct 2026 by Tachyon Publications.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Watts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57523843334522,"sku":"9781616964672","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781616964672.jpg?v=1793935839","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/ar\/products\/fold-catastrophes-9781616964672","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}