One volume presents Peter Watts's science fiction series "Rifters", one of the most fascinating, unpredictable and provocative science fiction series of the early 21st century.

Starfish (1999) ": A strange experiment is taking place at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean - a geothermal underwater station has housed unusual personnel. Each of these people is modified to work underwater and... mentally ill. A victim of child abuse and a maniac, a pedophile and a suicidal person... A random collection of crazy people who suddenly showed an incredible ability to adapt to life in the impenetrable darkness of the ocean depths will very soon come face to face with the Threat slowly rising from a giant rift in the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate .

“Whirlpool / Maelstrom (2001)” The West Coast of North America lies in ruins. A huge tsunami killed millions of people, and those who survived suffered from the earthquake. In the general chaos, at first, few people pay attention to the strange epidemic that affected the vegetation along the coast, and to the cult of the Madonna of Destruction that suddenly arose among the refugees, rising from the depths of the sea after the disaster. And in the wild digital jungle that was once called the Internet, something huge and alien to everything human is making plans for her, a woman with empty white eyes and implants in her body. A woman driven only by rage; a woman who brings with her the end of the world. Her name is Leni Clark. She did not die, despite the efforts of her employers. Now it's time for revenge, and everyone will pay the bills...

"Behemoth / Behemoth (2004)" Five years after the events of "Maelstrom", the corporate elite of North America are on the run from chaos and epidemics on the deep-sea station "Atlantis", where the former masters of life have to live side by side with rifters, people adapted to life at great depths. Former enemies united in fear of the outside world, but it has not forgotten about them and wants to call everyone to the answer. The inhabitants of the station do not yet know that their truce with each other can turn into a full-scale war, that the microbe that destroys all life on the surface of the Earth has changed and become even more deadly, and on land power now belongs to real monsters, both real and virtual, and one of them seems to have found Atlantis. But in the midst of horror and anarchy, hope appears - a medicine that can heal not only people, but the entire biosphere of the Earth. But won’t it turn out to be worse than any disease?