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    The Technician

    By Neal Asher

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    The Theocracy has been dead for twenty 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 . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781597805216
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    Neal Asher

    Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four and Weaponized. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is comprised of The Soldier, The Warship and The Human, and is also set in the Polity universe.

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    • 4/5
      enjoyed it. Lots of plot twists. Neat views on war technology and artificial intelligence.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorites from this universe. Compelling story, well put together, and makes more sense than many of the others (in some ways).
    • 3/5
      I will have to re-read this as I am not sure what was happening towards the end... partly due to reading it in bits, and when jet-lagged. There seemed to be a lot going on, and the gathering on of threads on a vast scale was familiar to me from Iain M Banks; but the sense of this passed me by this time...
    • 4/5
      These days, nobody does space opera like Neal Asher. This is a rollicking read, full of suspense, pyrotechnics, and puzzles, all set within the Polity universe Asher has been working within for so long. The conclusion promises even more complications for future novels set in the Polity universe, and for the planet Masada which is one of several Asher created and keeps returning to.
    • 2/5
      One of the few books I've read recently and given up on. It includes so much unexplained background information that at one point I stopped to double-check that it wasn't a sequel. It's not. Giving up on Asher after this one - read a couple of others that were OK, but this just doesn't do it for me.