Line War is the fifth and final novel in Neal Asher's action-packed Agent Cormac series. Their worlds are ending .

Line War

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

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

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

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

The Voyage of the Sable Keech returns to Neal Asher's water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters. Taylor Bloc is a walking dead man, determined to live again. He also wants adulation, power and control - and will do anything to get them. Of Bloc's kind, Sable Keech alone has achieved resurrection. So Bloc will retrace Keech's journey across Spatterjay's wild seas, with his crew of killers, to grasp his secret. Erlin wanted solitude to understand her eternal life, until an attack prompts her own strange journey. And Janer returns, with forbidden weaponry. He must stop an agent controlled by a hive mind with a death fixation. But a wider crisis will overshadow personal missions. In the deeps, an alien Prador is stirring, horribly transformed by Spatterjay's immortality virus. And an enemy ship would destroy the planet to keep this secret. Continue the science fiction adventure series with Orbus, or start at the beginning with The Skinner.

The Voyage of the Sable Keech

The hunter becomes the hunted in Gridlinked, the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series. When a portal to other planets explodes on Samarkand, thousands are killed and a terraforming project is obliterated. Earth Central Security suspects sabotage - and assigns a legendary investigator. But Agent Ian Cormac has his own problems. Years spent mentally linked to the Polity's AI network have eroded his humanity, and this gridlink has to be severed or he'll die. Without it, he has only his wits (and Shuriken, a throwing star with a mind of its own) to rely on. Cormac's disastrous last mission also haunts him - as a psychopath and a murderous android track him across the galaxy, seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the ice-bound planet of Samarkand hides deadly secrets beneath its surface .

Gridlinked

An epic adrenaline-filled space opera, The Human is the final thrilling book in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain trilogy. Their enemy seems unbeatable. But humanity is indomitable .

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