Agent Cormac's adventures start in Neal Asher's action-packed science-fiction drama, Gridlinked.
Agente CormacSerie
Tuffatevi in un futuro emozionante dove la tecnologia avanzata e le civiltà aliene si scontrano con l'umanità. Questa saga di fantascienza segue un coraggioso agente mentre affronta minacce cosmiche e complesse intrighi politici. Esplorate una galassia piena di pericoli, mistero e colpi di scena inaspettati, dove ogni caso è una lotta per la sopravvivenza del pianeta. Le storie vi immergono in un vortice di azione e domande filosofiche sulla natura dell'umanità.
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Full-scale action SF by one of Britain's most popular new writers.
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Brass man
- 568pagine
- 20 ore di lettura
On the primitive world of Cull, a knight errant called Anderson is hunting a dragon, little knowing that far away someone else has resurrected a brass killing machine called 'Mr Crane' to assist in a similar hunt encompassing star systems. When agent Cormac learns that this old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship.
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Polity Agent
- 496pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take 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 downbecause something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct 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 pernicious Jain nodes...And a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.
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Science fiction. The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess, and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber.
