Behemoth Book Two: Seppuku
{4.5/5} “He should have known it would be no use arguing with her. She wasn’t interested in assessing the odds of success. She wasn’t even balancing payoffs, weighing Atlantis against the rest of the world. The only variables she cared about came from inside her own head, and neither guilt nor obsession were amenable to cost-benefit analysis.”
Behemoth Book Two: Seppuku by Peter Watts, published in 2005
Lenie Clarke returns to the surface for the first time in 5 years. She’s looking for whoever found their supposedly secret deep sea station. She’s with Ken Lubin, who may or may not have a different agenda. They come across a doctor with a mobile clinic. Normally she helps people but today her van, having been connected to what’s left of the internet, went berserk and killed a bunch of people.
This is the sequel to B-Max, and completes the trilogy in 4 parts. Note that the “B” in “Behemoth” is actually the Greek letter beta.
It’s about what’s acceptable for the greater good.
Why read this series? For Watts’s knowledge about how the brain works, his biological speculation, and a plot that you won’t be able to predict. It’s pretty apocalyptic, so you might not want to read it during a pandemic.
I’ve read 5 books by Watts.