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Peter Watts' Starfish is that fairly rare type of science fiction book, one that is set on this planet, under the sea - specifically at the Beebe Station in the Pacific Ocean at the Channer Vent, a hyperthermal vent on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.

Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below?

This is no Disney-style tale with singing lobsters and mermaids, though - it is dark, atmospheric, psychologically tense, page-turning. The denizens described are specifically engineered by nature for the immense depths of the Ridge: monstrous fish with mouths full of vicious-looking fangs, some with their own luminescent bait to lure prey to their doom.