Transformation Book 1
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- The Skinner
- The Soldier
- Dark Intelligence
- Gridlinked
- Voyage of the Sable Keech
- The Line of Polity
- The Warship
- War Factory
- The Human
- Orbus
- Brass Man
- Infinity Engine
- Polity Agent
- Line War
- War Bodies
- Lockdown Tales
- Jack Four
- Weaponized
- Jenny Trapdoor
- Lockdown Tales II
- The Technician
- The Bosch
- Owning the Future
- Prador Moon
- The Gabble
- The Engineer Reconditioned
- Hilldiggers
- Shadow of the Scorpion
Size: 16.00 x 24.10 cm
Pages: 480
Size: 12.90 x 19.60 cm
Pages: 480
One man transcends death for vengeance. One woman transforms herself for power. And no one will emerge unscathed...
Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, having been brought back from the dead. He died in a human vs. alien war that ended a century ago.
Spear had been trapped on a planet, surrounded by alien Prador forces, when he spotted a rescue ship. Yet he and his entire squad were killed by the ship's Artificial Intelligence, Penny Royal, which turned rogue. Now, reliving these traumatic final moments, Spear finds the drive to keep on living. That drive is vengeance.
The AI still roams free and Spear vows to destroy it, planning to exploit another of its victims in his quest. But crime-lord Isobel Satomi has been modified by Penny Royal, turning her into something far from human. And as she evolves into the ultimate predator, will she turn Spear from hunter to hunted?
Paul Di Filippo on Locus wrote:Dark Intelligence is an imaginative, epic space opera this manages present a dark future universe full of vibrant spaceships, people, creatures and intelligence. Highly enjoyable and highly addictiven.
"It’s a scenario that trembles on the edge of the Singularity while still being comprehensible to, and inhabitable by, the humans of the era and of course to us 21st-century dullards as well. Novelty and neologisms dominate nearly every page. Handled badly, such a strategy becomes confusing and frustrating. Asher does it well, though. And yet the reader needs to keep pace. There is just enough authorial guidance, but no condescending hand-holding. This type of SF is really the litmus test for separating serious readers from, say, media fans who might groove to Guardians of the Galaxy but blanch at A. E. van Vogt..."