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His next novel, ''[[Blindsight]]'' (unrelated to Rifters), focuses on a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] sent to investigate a strange [[Starfish Aliens|alien artifact]] that's been detected on the edge of the solar system. The novel is mainly a [[First Contact]] story that mixes elements of [[Cosmic Horror Story|cosmic]] and [[Psychological Horror|psychological]] horror in order to examine (and deconstruct) the ideas of sentience and consciousness. ''[[Blindsight]]'' became something of a hit for Watts, garnering a [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] nomination for best novel.
Most recently, he [http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1838 consulted on the tech and plot] of the videogame ''[[Crysis (
Watts likes to [[Shown Their Work|show his work]], utilising extensive notes and references to support his work and theories. Because of this, unsurprisingly his work tends to end up on the ''hard'' end of the [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|scale]]. It also usually lies at the cynical end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|spectrum]] too, although not often without the slimmest, most stoic, hope available, if you squint.
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== Tropes involving Peter Watts ==
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Watts' website has a ton of supplementary information concerning his novels.
* [[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
* [[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 [[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 (
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Very far towards the cynical end.
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