The week after started giving Blindsight away, sales tripled.' He believes that doing so has 'actually saved career outright, by rescuing Blindsight from the oblivion to which it would have otherwise been doomed. Watts has made some of his novels and short fiction available on his website under a Creative Commons license. The novel has been described by Charles Stross as follows: 'Imagine a neurobiology-obsessed version of Greg Egan writing a first contact with aliens story from the point of view of a zombie posthuman crewman aboard a starship captained by a vampire, with not dying as the boobie prize.' Echopraxia (2014) is a 'sidequel' about events happening on Earth and elsewhere concurrent with the events in Blindsight. His novel Blindsight, released in October 2006, was nominated for a Hugo Award. Starfish, Maelstrom, and βehemoth make up a trilogy usually referred to as 'Rifters' after the modified humans designed to work in deep-ocean environments. The last two volumes constitute one novel, but were published separately for commercial reasons.

His first novel Starfish (1999) reintroduced Lenie Clarke from his short story, 'A Niche' (1990) Clarke is a deep-ocean power station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: Maelstrom (2001), βehemoth: β-Max (2004) and βehemoth: Seppuku (2005). He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. Peter Watts (born Janu) is a Canadian science fiction author.

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