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Join us as we explore Peter Watt’s New York Time’s Notable Book of the Year, Starfish.  In Watt’s debut novelcivilization rests on the backs of its outcasts, and right now civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific. Rifters are recruited from those who are so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction. But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what they have in them - and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole planet.