Maelstrom
{4.5/5} “She’d been astonished to learn that there was life on the moon: microscopic life, some kind of bacterium that had hitched a ride with the first unmanned probes. It had survived years of starvation in hard vacuum, frozen, boiled, pelted by an unending sleet of hard radiation. Life, she’d learned, could survive anything.”
Maelstrom by Peter Watts, published in 2001
An earthquake has killed millions, but the people who caused it thought they were saving the world. Lenie Clarke, who they tried to kill, is still alive. She comes up out of the ocean into a refugee camp where most people leave her alone — but one person is very interested in her. While others search for any hint of the deadly Behemoth microbe, Lenie suspects that it’s inside her.
This is the sequel to Starfish.
It’s about people who are willing and able to kill a few to save many, and people who are not. It’s about the future of the internet, and people who are doing their job and are curious about things outside the norm.
You might not understand every word, but it’s worth reading.
I’ve read 3 books by Watts.