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Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

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by Peter Watts

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Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes In this collection of short stories from best selling author Peter Watts, enter strange new worlds that defy the imagination. Journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings ... push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death ... and watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and salvation to the human race. Nine stories make up this stunning new collection from a rising talent in the field of Science Fiction. Peter Watts Dr. Peter Watts has spent much of his adult life trying to decide whether to be a writer or a scientist, ending up, he says, as a marginal hybrid of both. He is best known for his Rifters Saga, a trilogy which is composed of Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth. Starfish netted a "Notable Book of the Year" nod from the New York Times, as well as an honorable mention for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes “Watts wants us to look outside our comfortable circle of light and make the best judgment that we can with our uncertain intellects. It’s a message worth heeding.” - James Schellenberg, Challenging Destiny -

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Reviews and Interviews have appeared in:

          Challenging Destiny

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Online Reviews and mentions:

          The Voyager (interview)

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Testimonials:

"Watts has a painter's way with mood and setting, ...he introduces the reader to a compelling cast of irrational scientists, sensitive bigots, loving murderesses, scheming whales, and living clouds....His answers are sometimes eerie, often upsetting, and readers may disagree with his conclusions, but it's clear that Watts cares deeply about the people whose lives he imagines... Long after closing the book, readers will be arguing and reasoning with the people they met between its pages."

- Nalo Hopkinson, Quill & Quire

"Watts holds a lot of irons to the fire in Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes, and if you discount his white-hot arguments and aperçus because their brand is speculative fiction, well, it's your loss, then, isn't it? The writing is brisk, the sentences short, shot with nouns. These are stories of the future. These are essays of now."

- John Burns, The Georgia Straight

"...busily overturn[s] politically-correct ideas and pok[es] holes in the received wisdom of the science fiction genre. Watts wants us to look outside our comfortable circle of light and make the best judgment that we can with our uncertain intellects. It's a message worth heeding."

- James Schellenberg, Crystalline Sphere

"Watts the short-story writer can seem like Greg Egan with more urgency in his voice...a gripping writer. Watts's shorter work carries a unique charge. Peter Watts wants to make us look up, and he succeeds."

- Graham Sleight, The New York Review of Science Fiction

"This collection is a real gem, one of the best books I've read in a long time, a revelation. It opens new perspectives in the way one can use the scientific motif in fiction…Sinister and brilliant."

- Daniel Jetté, Solaris (translated, very roughly, from the French)

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