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  • Behemoth: B-Max

  • Rifters Trilogy, Book 3, Part 1
  • By: Peter Watts
  • Narrated by: Alison Ewing
  • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (33 ratings)

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Behemoth: B-Max

By: Peter Watts
Narrated by: Alison Ewing
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Lenie Clarke has destroyed the world. The horror she unleashed—an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth—has been free in the world for half a decade now. North America lies in ruins. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle.

But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy.

Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial "corpses" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made.

Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way—and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds . . .

©2004 Peter Watts (P)2022 Tantor
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The Rifters Series Should Have Ended With Starfish

I love much of Peter Watts' work as much as anyone else. But this isn't his best. Starfish introduced many interesting ideas. Maelstrom added memes. Behemoth hasn't added meaningful anything to the story, or introduced new and captivating ideas. There is a Peter Watts interview out there that took place before Behemoth, where he said he hadn't written another book in the series because he didn't have anything else to say in that world. He still didn't, but he wrote another book anyways.

Luckily he still has a lot of other great works. Maybe check those out before you waste your time with Behemoth.

The narrator's performance was adequate, and that's really all there is to say about it. It wasn't noticeably poorly or well done.

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