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Polity Agent - Neal Asher

Description: ISBN 1405054980 / Author: Neal Asher / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity ... more

Polity Agent - Neal Asher ... and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes ...and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.

Newest Review: ... transport, spaceship battles, anti-matter guns, violent annihilation of whole planets. On top of this we have a good dose of ... more

... post cyber-punk motifs including benign ruling AIs, humans augmented with electronics, Virtual Reality, mighty information gridlinks and memcrystals. Add genetic modification, bio-machines and a powerful nanotechnology that breeds like a combination of biological and information virus and you have an author that clearly knows his stuff and confidently uses the whole techno-science-fiction toolkit. All of this is combined quite well into a consistent and believable world which to me strongly resembles Bank...more

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Polity Agent - Neal Asher: With a Bang and a Clunk (893 words)
by - written on 13/11/06 (Very useful, 125 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review