{"product_id":"fold-catastrophes","title":"Fold Catastrophes","description":"Science fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with his first short story collection since 2013. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological collapse.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.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Peter Watts: Never cheerful. Always brilliant.'\u003cbr\u003e--John Scalzi, author of the Old Man's War series \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 something 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 (The Freeze-Frame Revolution) reserves whatever hope he has for whatever comes after humans.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":55441982554450,"sku":"9781616964672","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/bild_4aef1540-264d-4612-8836-fcc3dee9da6e.jpg?v=1794578187","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/fold-catastrophes","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}