This one from Booklist:
Dark Intelligence:
Transformation Book One
Asher, Neal
(Author)
Feb 2015. 352 p. Night Shade,
hardcover, $26.99. (9781597808248).
Asher returns to his popular
far-future series, Polity Universe, with another fast-paced space opera filled
with his trademark technological marvels and elaborate world building. In a
world where consciousness is portable, artificial, and alien—the Prador are
crablike carnivores who are quite nasty— Thorvald Spear awakens a century after
his death in a new body but with full recollection of dying during the
Prador-Human war. Asher drops readers straight into the action, as Spear seeks
to avenge the death of his soldiers by the rogue AI ship, the Penny Royal. (The
AI ships have personalities of their own, some not so nice.) On his search, he
encounters Isobel Satomi, a perversely augmented human who turns her body into
a vicious weapon for her own ends.
Asher shifts the point of view in each chapter to various players in his
galactic game—the ships get chapters, too—and the result is an exciting,
intricate, and unabashedly futuristic story rife with twists and turns. Fans of
Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief (2010) will feel right at home in
Asher’s Polity Universe.
6 comments:
Hi Neal,
got both the hardcover and Kindle edition on pre-order, can't wait.
Sorry to sound a bit thick, but which of your books would you recommend I re-read in order to reacqaint myself with Penny Royal's antics prior to the arrival of Dark Intelligence?
I cannot wait to get my hands and eyes on this!!!
Bascule, if anything The Technician. You could also reread Alien Archaeology in The Gabble too.
Hi Neal,
Pre-ordered it a while ago, and I should have it within a day or two.
With the rise of ebooks, I've been reading a lot of stuff on an ebook reader. But there are some authors whose work I always get the old-fashioned paper version of, like yours.
Can't wait to read it.
Yes, those Prador are indeed "quite nasty"; confiscating children's football's accidentally kicked into their cave, saying unkind things about immigrants, reading The Sun, causing fracas at McDonald's etc.
"Bascule, if anything The Technician. You could also reread Alien Archaeology in The Gabble too"
Done and done. Thanks for that Neal, now primed for Thursday!
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