Author · born 1958
Peter Watts
Peter Watts (born 1958) is a Canadian biologist and sci-fi author. Born in Calgary.
Our catalogue lists 1 book by Peter Watts, mostly vampire fiction. The most-read is Blindsight (2006).
Books by Peter Watts
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Awards
- ✦Hugo Awards 2011 — Best Short Story, The Things (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 2010 — Best Novelette, The Island (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 2007 — Best Novel, Blindsight (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2026 — Best Novelette, The Twenty-One Second God (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Novelette, Contracting Iris (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Novella, The Freeze-Frame Revolution (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Short Story, Kindred (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Novelette, ZeroS (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novelette, Collateral (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novelette, The Colonel (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Echopraxia (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2014 — Best Collection, Beyond the Rift (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Short Story, The Things (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2010 — Best Novelette, The Island (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2007 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Blindsight (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2002 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Maelstrom (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2000 — Best First Novel, Starfish (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards — Best Science Fiction Novel, Blindsight (nominee)
- 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2010 — Overall (winner)
- ✦BSFA Awards 2010 — Best Short Fiction, The Things (nominee)
Biography
Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist.