Peter Watts  is a Canadian science fiction author.  He specializes in hard science fiction.  He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in 1991 from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist.  He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school.
                                    
                                         
                                        
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