Those who have read Neal’s earlier books will know how nasty they are, but for those who are new, there’s a nice summary made by one of the characters here (on page 61): ‘hostile, horrible-looking b*stards, eat people, torture people. However this book mainly deals with the first meeting between the Earth Polity and the Prador – nasty, aggressive, carnivorous crab-like aliens seen previously in The Skinner, and The Voyage of the Sable Keech. And also the Separatists (first met in Gridlinked) continue their terrorist war against the Polity, determined to avoid being run by the AI’s. Runcibles (the means of instant matter transfer) do, as too the AI’s which run them (and the Polity). The Dragon (first met in Gridlinked) does. So the events of Gridlinked, Line of Polity, The Skinner, and The Voyage of the Sable Keech (reviewed HERE) haven’t happened yet, although some of the key elements of Asher’s universe do exist.
The book is an interesting one, in that, although recently written, Neal goes back to events in the Polity before the time in which most of his previous Polity books exist. So, what new to expect from Neal Asher? This rather slim book is one which shows all the Asher trademarks: big weapons, violence, more big weapons, fast pace, gigantic explosions and nasty (make that really nasty) aliens.
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