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{{quote|''"Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts."''|'''James Nicoll'''}}

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* [[Executive Meddling]]: During the production of ''βehemoth'', the third book in the [[Rifters Trilogy]], Watts's publisher Tor decided to split the book into two parts (subtitled ''β-Max'' and ''Seppuku''). This was a decision Watts was extremely unhappy with, leading to their relationship being soured. It would further deteriorate during the publishing of ''Blindsight'', due to artistic differences over the cover design, as well as an extremely limited print run. ''So'' limited, in fact, that once it began to become popular, '''nobody could find it'''! Faced with the prospect of having his novel buried, Watts decided that it would be better to make [[Doing It for The Art|no money]] and at least have the novel read, so he released it free on his [http://rifters.com/ website]. This move proved extremely popular, and led to Watts releasing his other novels and many of his short stories for free [http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm online].

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: Most of his works have shades (hah) of this, mostly due to their [[Crapsack World]] settings.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Watts contracted [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis~~ Necrotizing Fasciitis]. That's a '''flesh eating bacteria'''. What did he do? He [http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1831 blogged about it]. The whole series of posts can be found here, under the title "[http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?category_name=flesh-eating-fest-11 Flesh Eating Fest '11]". At one point, a nurse treating him said that he must have an extremely high pain tolerance.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Watts contracted [[wikipedia:Necrotizing fasciitis|Necrotizing Fasciitis]]. That's a '''flesh eating bacteria'''. What did he do? He [http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1831 blogged about it]. The whole series of posts can be found here, under the title "[http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?category_name=flesh-eating-fest-11 Flesh Eating Fest '11]". At one point, a nurse treating him said that he must have an extremely high pain tolerance.

* [[Overreacting Airport Security|Overreacting Border Security]]: Watts had a now-infamous encounter on the U.S./Canadian border, during which he was [[Police Brutality|maced and wrestled to the ground]] by a power-tripping border patrolman. The reason? Not reacting fast enough to a verbal command from the patrolman.

* [[Perspective Flip]]: His Hugo-nominated short story "The Things" is the events of the [[Cult Classic]] sci-fi movie ''[[The Thing (Film)|The Thing]]'' from the alien's point-of-view.