A high-octane sci-fi adventure, Jack Four is a standalone novel set in Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity Universe. Thrilling and fast-paced, it's perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter. Created to die - determined to live .

Jack Four

Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed .

Dark Intelligence - Transformation: Book One

Weaponized is a thrilling far-future space opera by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher, a standalone adventure set in the expansive Polity universe. A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past. Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now she's struggling to find excitement and purpose, so signs up to the Polity's military. She excels in weapons development, and progresses rapidly up the ranks. But after botching a powerful new ammunition test, she's dismissed from service. Hunting for a simpler, more meaningful existence, the ex-soldier heads for the stars. And after founding a colony on the hostile planet of Threpsis, Ursula finally feels alive. Then deadly raptors attack and the colonists are forced to adapt in unprecedented ways. The raptors also raise a deeply troubling question: how could the Polity have missed these apex predators? And alien ruins? Meanwhile, biophysicist Oren has formed his own survival plan - one he'll pursue at any cost. As a desperate battle erupts to consume the planet, Ursula finds she must dig deep into her past to ensure humanity's future.

Weaponized

Now featured as part of the Love Death + Robots series on NetflixSnow in the Desert is compelling, brutal and lingers long after the final word: the perfect introduction to Neal Asher's Polity universe fiction. In the parched, arid wastes of this far-flung Polity world, Snow is being hunted. With a prize on his head and his life in danger, trust is a luxury he can't afford. Hirald, pale and deadly in the blistering heat, is an ambiguous presence. But who is she? What does she want from him?Mankind has sought Snow's secret for thousands of years, and blood will flow in the desert before it's revealed. Neal Asher is the author of many full-length novels, including Jack Four, The Soldier, Dark Intelligence, The Departure, The Skinner and Gridlinked.

Snow in the Desert (Short Reads)

Dans un futur très lointain, les Humains ont essaimé à travers les galaxies. Toutes les planètes colonisées sont gouvernées par le Polity, à quelques rares exceptions. La principale menace qui pèse sur le Polity, ce sont les Pradors, une race d'extraterrestres plus que belliqueux, malins et friands de chair humaine...Ian Cormac est l'un des agents du Polity. Soldat surentraîné, il est envoyé en mission sur une planète pour rétablir l'ordre après un génocide commis par les Pradors. Mais ces créatures monstrueuses ne sont pas les seuls ennemis. Au sein de sa propre équipe, Cormac découvre un complot de grande ampleur mené par un opposant au Polity qui met tout en œuvre pour l'éliminer. Tandis que Cormac lutte pour sa survie, il se remémore ses années d'enfance : où et pourquoi son père est-il mort ? Pourquoi sa mère lui a toujours caché son passé ? Et surtout, quel est ce drone en forme de scorpion qu'il a aperçu plusieurs fois au cours de sa vie, telle une ombre bienveillante et terrifiante à la fois ?

Drone

Set in a lethal waterworld where sudden death is a way of life, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher. The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet. And Keech is an agent of Earth who's been dead for seven hundred years - but still hunts a notorious criminal. On Spatterjay's vast waterscapes, only the Old Captains risk the native life forms and their voracious appetites. However, they are now barely human. And somewhere out there Keech's target - the Skinner - runs wild. Keech pursues the Skinner for atrocities committed in a centuries-past war, fought with the alien Prador. But one of these Prador is fast approaching Spatterjay to exterminate witnesses to his own war crimes. And he won't spare its visitors. Continue the science fiction adventure with The Voyage of Sable Keech and Orbus.

The Skinner

In a world devoid of hope, is revenge the only way out?The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from here, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. It governs a corrupt world, where the poor are starving - and are policed by mechanized overseers wielding identity-reader guns. There are also too many people and too few resources, so the Committee has decided twelve billion people must die. So they prepare to unleash the full power of their Station's weaponry to make this happen. Alan Saul wakes to this world, confined in a crate bound for a Calais incinerator. He doesn't know why he's there; he only remembers pain and his tormentor's face. And he has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence, who is inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows his host a damaged Earth, Saul resolves to discover who he was - and kill his interrogator. Next he will take on the Committee and topple their debased regime. The Departure is the first fast-paced book in the Owner trilogy by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher.'Delivers plenty of thrills' - SFX'Fast, dramatic stuff .

The Departure

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our February 2020 issue (#161) contains: Original fiction by Hollis Joel Henry ("Outer"), Malena Salazar Macia ("Eyes of the Crocodile"), Cooper Shrivastava ("Mandorla"), Neal Asher ("The Host"), Grace Chan ("Jigsaw Children"), and Thoraiya Dyer ("Generation Gap"). Non-fiction by Carries Sessarego, interviews with Tochi Onyebuchi and Ken Liu, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 161 - Clarkesworld Magazine

Spatterjay : une planète recouverte par les océans et grouillant de créatures marines hostiles. Sur l'un de ses rares îlots vit l'Écorcheur, une entité monstrueuse semant la terreur parmi les pêcheurs qui sillonnent ses eaux. Des pêcheurs qui, bien décidés à détruire cette abomination une fois pour toutes, unissent leurs forces... Ainsi débute une course-poursuite planétaire, une traque dans laquelle seront embarqués trois personnages pour le moins curieux : Erlin, une scientifique à la recherche d'un capitaine immortel, Keech, un flic ressuscité après 700 ans dans le but de retrouver un criminel, et Janer, en mission pour les Frelons, espèce terrestre ayant développé une intelligence communautaire.Mais ce qui les attend sur les traces de l'Écorcheur, est bien plus qu'une aventure d'une rare violence. Car Spatterjay, aux confins de la galaxie, loin du couvert des lois gouvernementales du Polity, réserve d'autres surprises...

Jack Four

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