Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays by Peter Watts

Author:Peter Watts [Watts, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Collections, Essays, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science
ISBN: 9781616963194
Google: xn6iwwEACAAJ
Amazon: B07RM4ZCLP
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2019-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chamber of Horrors

Nowa Fantastyka Nov 2016

You may know that I was a biologist long before I was an author. You may not know how far back those roots extend, though: years before I ever stepped onto a university campus. Way back into childhood, in fact.

I was really bad at biology back then. I was downright horrific. Now I am old, and remorseful, and afflicted with some weird disease that nobody seems able to identify; so I figure I should make my peace. Consider this a deathbed confession, delivered early to avoid the rush.

My intentions were always honorable. I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people; the running joke of my life is that I’m a bad biologist because I have too much compassion, can’t bring myself to experiment on fellow beings with the ruthless dispassion that Science demands.

But I don’t just love life; I want to know how it works, I always have. I decided to be a biologist at age seven; by fourteen I was building metabolic chambers out of mason jars.

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