Starfish is the first novel in the Rifters trilogy set in 2050 focussing on a group of mentally unstable divers being manipulated by corporate interests in a midst of an environmental meltdown. Sounds like a pretty formulaic story, right? Well Peter Watts takes it further by heaping more science that feels necessary at times to create a story where you may not always understand what’s going on but you’re pretty sure it all makes sense.
I’m still not convinced I enjoyed this as a story as I had little interest in any of the characters but the science and meltdown was good enough to get me onto the next book
3/5
