The Mariana Trench, with a depth of 35,797 feet at its lowest point is the deepest point on earth and is the deepest of all the world’s ocean trenches. Man has started to tap vents in the oceans trenches for energy and who knows what else. The pressure at these depths is deadly to man and only a few creatures live at this level. To improve the odds and allow man live and work at these depths science has found ways to genetically and mechanically alter man.
Starfish is the first in a series and is followed by Behemoth and Maelstrom. Starfish was written by Peter Watts, a marine biologist by trade. Starfish, is his first novel and is a gritty science fiction thriller, which pits the personalities of a bunch of nonconformists and misfits against a hostile environment and its hideous but fragile sea creatures.
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