Polity Agent
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Polity Agent

Paperback – November 1, 2010

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Price
$7.74
Format
Paperback
Pages
496
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0330521390
Dimensions
7.7 x 5.1 x 1.5 inches
Weight
1.01 pounds

Description

About the Author Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous full-length novels are Gridlinked , The Skinner , The Line of Polity , Cowl , Brass Man , The Voyage of the Sable Keech , Hilldiggers , Prador Moon , Line War , Shadow of the Scorpion and Orbus .

Features & Highlights

  • From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it have been tasked with taking the alien Maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down—because something alien is pursuing them.
  • From those who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive bioconstruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing toxic Jain nodes... and a renegade attack ship,
  • The King of Heart
  • s, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Polity Agent - Another great novel

Neal Asher's Polity Universe is one of the best series I've read in a long time. Polity Agent is another great adventure.
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Brilliant technology descriptions, but not enough excitement

With nearly all my favourite Polity characters getting aired again in this tome in which Jain technology seriously threatens the Polity and we finally find out the truth about Horace Blegg, I don't know why I found this book so hard to finish. Neal Asher does a fantastic job of explaining how Polity and Jain technology works, rather than glossing over the deeper physics, making the technology so much more believable. I particularly liked the description of how the USER technology disrupts U-space travel and how that impacts the characters' plans. The attempt to curtail the spread of Jain technology throughout an arcology is brilliantly described and the end of book battle is to the usual high space opera standard, but frustratingly without any final resolution. For me, the book just seemed to drag, rather than drag me in as has been the case with the earlier Polity Agent books. Perhaps for me Ian Cormack has had his day.

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