Hilldiggers - Neal Asher

The Line War - Neal Asher

This new addition to the Polity universe starts off where the Polity Agent left off. Polity is still suffering from the onslaught of Jain tech, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations. Jain-infested Erebus and all his subjugated AIs are at war with the Polity and Agent Cormac, Orlandine and Dragon all are trying to their best, in their unique ways, to thwart Erebus's plans, whatever they might be. The narrative constantly skips between different points of view: we have Cormac, the Jain-tech controlling haiman Orlandine, researcher Mika aboard Dragon, a subversive computer virus called Fiddler Randal who inhabits nooks and crannies of Erebus's mind, an AI called ...

The Line War - Neal Asher

This new addition to the Polity universe starts off where the Polity Agent left off. Polity is still suffering from the onslaught of Jain tech, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations. Jain-infested Erebus and all his subjugated AIs are at war with the Polity and Agent Cormac, Orlandine and Dragon all are trying to their best, in their unique ways, to thwart Erebus's plans, whatever they might be. The narrative constantly skips between different points of view: we have Cormac, the Jain-tech controlling haiman Orlandine, researcher Mika aboard Dragon, a subversive computer virus called Fiddler Randal who inhabits nooks and crannies of Erebus's mind, an AI called ...

Polity Agent - Neal Asher

This is a fourth book set in the Polity and it features Agent Cormac and some other characters known from previous instalments. It's not part of a saga, though, and it's perfectly readable as a stand alone, as enough explanation (in fact, perhaps even bit too much, as it often is the case with s-f books) is provided. Jain nodes, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations is rearing its ugly head again in the Polity. Who is distributing the nodes? What do they have to do with the giant biotechnology construct called Dragon produced by the Makers' civilisation, itself destroyed by Jain tech 800 years in the future? And what exactly is the mysterious entity calling ...

Polity Agent - Neal Asher

This is a fourth book set in the Polity and it features Agent Cormac and some other characters known from previous instalments. It's not part of a saga, though, and it's perfectly readable as a stand alone, as enough explanation (in fact, perhaps even bit too much, as it often is the case with s-f books) is provided. Jain nodes, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations is rearing its ugly head again in the Polity. Who is distributing the nodes? What do they have to do with the giant biotechnology construct called Dragon produced by the Makers' civilisation, itself destroyed by Jain tech 800 years in the future? And what exactly is the mysterious entity calling ...

Gridlinked - Neal Asher

sister. There's a lot more to it than even this synopsis can suggest but it's written well enough not to seem quite such a labyrinthine proposition in Neal Asher's hands. Parallels can definitely be drawn between Gridlinked and Peter F Hamilton's novels. Both are enormously enthusiastic about humanity and our uses of technology. Both depict a galactic future that is rather like today with knobs on, and both's books are actually pretty violent, featuring a lot of weapons-based technology. I actually prefer Asher's vision of the future: it might be grim in places, and he certainly fetishises technology (and guns) even more than Hamilton does, ...

Gridlinked - Neal Asher

sister. There's a lot more to it than even this synopsis can suggest but it's written well enough not to seem quite such a labyrinthine proposition in Neal Asher's hands. Parallels can definitely be drawn between Gridlinked and Peter F Hamilton's novels. Both are enormously enthusiastic about humanity and our uses of technology. Both depict a galactic future that is rather like today with knobs on, and both's books are actually pretty violent, featuring a lot of weapons-based technology. I actually prefer Asher's vision of the future: it might be grim in places, and he certainly fetishises technology (and guns) even more than Hamilton does, ...