Behemoth
Watts, Peter
Published : 2007
Type(s) : Novels, Science Fiction
Source : http://www.rifters.com
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Peter Watts is a Canadian science ction author and marine-mammal biologist. Starsh
(2000) Maelstrom
(2001) Blindsight
(2006)
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Contents
Author's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Creative Commons License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Prelude: 'lawbreaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
I ß-Max 11
1 Counterstrike 12
2 The Shiva Iterations 20
3 Outgroup 22
4 Huddle 30
5 Zombie 35
6 Portrait of the Sadist as a Young Boy 41
7 Condence Limits 43
8 Cavalry 48
9 Nemesis 53
10 Portrait of the Sadist as an Adolescent 56
11 Bedside Manor 60
12 Boilerplate 64
13 Portrait of the Sadist as a Young Man 69
14 Fire Drill 73
15 Family Values 76
16 Portrait of the Sadist as a Free Man 82
17 Confessional 87
18 Conscript 96
19 Portrait of the Sadist as a Team Player 102
20 Automechanica 109
21 Gravediggers 115
22 Striptease 119
23 Frontier 124
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424 Groundwork 126
25 Harpodon 130
26 The Bloodhound Iterations 138
27 Without Sin 142
28 Baptism 155
29 Tag 160
30 Fulcrum 169
31 Incoming 173
II Seppuku 176
1 Dune 177
2 Nightingale 185
3 Condom 192
4 Gehenna 195
5 The Trigonometry of Salvation 203
6 Migration 209
7 Karma 214
8 DisArmor 220
9 Stargazer 228
10 Sleeper 234
11 Parsimony 242
12 Corral 245
13 Turncoat 248
14 Crash 254
15 The Skill of the Chase 258
16 Remedial Ed 261
17 Decirculate 263
18 Paranoid 269
19 Matryoska 274
20 Basement Wiring 279
21 Splice 283
22 The Hamilton Iterations 289
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24 Fleas 297
25 Firebreathers 301
26 In Kind 308
27 Expiration Date 316
28 Bastille 320
29 Empath 334
III Epilog: Singular Hessian 345
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Author's Note
Acknowledgements
The usual gang of suspects, without whom I could never have pulled this off:
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Prelude: 'lawbreaker
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Part I
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Chapter
I Counterstrike
"The world is not dying, it is being killed.
And those that are killing it have names and addresses."
— Utah Phillips
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IV Huddle
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"Girls then. Either way, you should be out getting laid, not stuck down here."
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V Zombie
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VII Condence Limits
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VIII Cavalry
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IX Nemesis
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X Portrait of the Sadist as an Adolescent
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XI Bedside Manor
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"He thinks they did something to him."
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XII Boilerplate
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XIV Fire Drill
She wakes up lost at sea.
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XVI Portrait of the Sadist as a Free Man
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XVII Confessional
Jerenice Seger wants to make an announcement.
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"Some kind."
"And you...you think the corpses did..."
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Chapter
XIX Portrait of the Sadist as a Team Player
Alice Jovellanos's denition of apologywas
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