Peter Watts

Peter Watts is a Canadian hard science fiction writer and former marine-mammal biologist. He trained in zoology at the University of Guelph and earned a PhD in zoology and resource ecology from the University of British Columbia in 1991, then worked as a researcher and teacher before turning to fiction.

His debut novel Starfish (1999) began the Rifters trilogy, followed by Maelstrom and Behemoth. His novel Blindsight (2006) was a Hugo Award nominee and was released online under a Creative Commons licence, as was much of his other work. Its sequel Echopraxia appeared in 2014.

His novelette "The Island" won the 2010 Hugo Award, and his later books include The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018) and the collection Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor (2019). He lives in Toronto.