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Peter Watts is an angry sentient tumor : revenge fantasies and essays / Peter Watts.

by Watts, Peter, 1958-

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Tachyon Publications, 2019.

Watts, Peter, 1958-

Canadian essays -- 20th century.

9781616963194 (pbk.)

318 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

In love with the moment. Scared shitless of the future -- Everything I needed to know about Christmas I learned from my grandmother -- We need to talk about Kevin -- And so it begins -- Dress rehearsal -- Extraordinary claims -- Why I suck -- The black knight. In memoriam -- Viva Zika! -- Zounds, gadzooks, and fucking Sisyphus -- Actually, you can keep a good man down -- Shooting back -- Dolphinese -- HemiHive, in hiding -- The dudette with the clitoris, and other thoughts on Star Trek Beyond -- The life sausage -- No brainer -- The yogurt revolution -- A ray of sunshine -- The least unlucky bastard -- No pictures. Only words. -- Prometheus: the men behind the mask -- Motherhood issues -- The halting problem -- Chamber of horrors -- The best-case apocalypse -- Nazis and skin cream -- Ass backwards -- And another thing (The Thing, 2011) -- Oprah's X-men: thoughts on Logan -- Cambridge analytica and the other turning test -- Life in the FAST lane -- Smashing the lid off Pandora's box -- The split-brain universe -- The limits of reason -- Changing our minds "Story of your life" in pring and on screen --The God-shaped hole -- Dumb adult -- In praise of war crimes -- The last of us, the weakest link -- Martin Luther King and the vampire rights league -- Black & white -- Gods and gamma -- "PyrE. Make them tell you what it is." -- Understanding Sarah Palin: or, God is in the wattles -- The overweening overentitlement of the happy-enders -- The Cylon solution -- The physics of hope -- A renaissance of analog antiquity -- Pearls before cows: thought on Blade Runner 2049 -- Lizards in the sink with David.

"With over fifty unpredictable, scathing, hilarious, and more-than-occasionally moving essays about science, politics, family, pop culture, religion and more, Peter Watts--Hugo Award-winning author, former marine biologist, and "angry sentient tumor" (via Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous)--shows why he is the savage dystopian optimist whom you can't look away from... even when you probably should."-Amazon.com.

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