The standalone novel by Neal Asher featuring two of his favourite Polity creations – the hooder and the gabbleduck.
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The standalone novel by Neal Asher featuring two of his favourite Polity creations – the hooder and the gabbleduck.
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In Neal Asher's The Technician, the Theocracy has been dead for 20 years, and the Polity rules on Masada – but it is an order that the rebels of the Tidy Squad cannot accept, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is top of their hitlist.Tombs, meanwhile, has escaped his sanatorium. His insanity must be cured, because the near-mythical hooder, called ‘the Technician’, that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race. It’s up to the war drone Amistad to discover this information, with the help of an ex-rebel Commander, the black AI Penny Royal and the amphidapt Chanter.Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons ...
Critic Reviews
'... fast-paced alien-world action.' -- Cybermage
'I know that when a tale from him arrives that I’m going to get a story that I absolutely love.' -- FalcataTimes blog
About the Author
Neal Asher (born 4 February 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England) is an English science fiction writer. Although he began writing speculative fiction in secondary school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing until he was 25. He worked as a machinist and machine programmer from 1979 to 1987 and as a gardener from 1979 to 1987.He published his first short story in 1989. His novel Gridlinked was published in 2001, the first in a series of novels made up of Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War. Peter Noble grew up in South Africa and studied drama and music at the University of Cape Town. He worked extensively as an actor, touring South Africa with a small repertory theatre company, as well as working on radio, TV and film. He later moved to London and graduated from LAMDA, then from the Royal Academy of Music as a singer. An Earphones Award-winning narrator, Peter Noble has recorded more than 250 audiobooks and audio dramas.
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