โ Scribed by Neal Asher
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Another broiling, sprawling, witty, hard-SF adventure, filled with the truly alien
On the primitive world of Cull, a knight errant called Anderson is hunting a dragon, little knowing that far away someone else (now more technology than human flesh) 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 Jack Ketch whilst scientist Mika begins discovering the horrifying truth about that ancient technology ostensibly produced by the alien Jain. Meanwhile, for the people of Cull, each day proves a struggle to survive on a planet roamed by ferocious insectile monsters, while they slowly construct the industrial base that may enable them to escape to their forefathers starship -- still orbiting far above them. But an entity with questionable motives, calling itself Dragon, assists them with genetic by-blows created out of humans and the hideous local monsters. And now the planet itself, for millennia geologically inactive, is increasingly suffering earthquakes 'Compelling reading ... Asher has become a resounding and distinctive voice in British SF' SFRevu
Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and still lives nearby. He had many stories and novellas published before embarking on a sequence of full-length novels: Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity and Cowl.
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Agent Cormac [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780765317315
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*Brass Man* is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series. On the primitive world Cull, a knight errant called Anderson hunts a dragon, not knowing that elsewhere is a resurrected brass killing machine, Mr Crane, assisting in a similar hunt. Learning that this old enemy still
From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to Gridlinked, which SFRevu.com called "brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas." Ian Cormac, a legen
From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of _Cowl_ , an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: _Brass Man_. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to _Gridlinked_ , which SFRevu.com called "brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas." Ian Cormac
**_Brass Man_ is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.** **"Asher has lit up the sky of Science Fiction like a new sun." Tanith Lee** **** **"Fizzing with intelligent ideas and occasionally streaked with black humor. Appalling, mind-boggling, fascinating - and irresistibl
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of \*Cowl\*, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: \*Brass Man\*. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to \*Gridlinked, \*which\* SFRevu.com \*called "brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of c
SUMMARY: From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to Gridlinked, which SFRevu.com called "brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas." Ian Cor