Behemoth: B-Max

tarfish lit the fuse. Maelstrom was the explosion. But five years into the aftermath, things aren't quite so simple as they once seemed . . . Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed -an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called behemoth-has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world on false pretenses. Now, rifters and the corporate elite who created them cower at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, hiding from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something lethal has found them in the depths. Something which has either violated the laws of physics to follow them here, or arisen from treachery within their own ranks. Suddenly, the rifters and their one-time masters remember that they are enemies. And the only thing standing between them is a woman with the blood of a world on her hands

Peter Watts is a marine biologist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.