The Owner

✍ Scribed by Asher, Neal

• Publisher: Tor
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 33 KB
• Series: Owner ss 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Departure is the first book in Neal Asher's near-future, science fiction Owner series.

The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources, and they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilized. So corruption is rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanized overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry, taking carnage to a new level.

This is the world Alan Saul wakes to, travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesnt know, but he remembers pain and his tormentors face. He also has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their regime. Once hes discovered who he was, and killed his interrogator . . .

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Review

Fast, furious, violent, slightly tongue-in-cheek (I think), and a whole lot of fun that makes 1984 seem like a childrens tea party . . . the start of another promising series from Asher. Go on, dive in, you wont be disappointed. (British Fantasy Society)

Delivers plenty of thrills, and the climax also sets up a very intriguing status quo for the second volume. (SFX)

Action packed and thrilling, The Departure is a must for all fans of contemporary science fiction who havent experienced Ashers visceral novels before. (We Love This Book)

The Orwellian intro had me utterly hooked right from the start. I simply couldnt stop reading until I reached the end. (WorldsInInk)

Fast, dramatic stuff . . . this is a book with lots of Asher trademarks: rapid pace, great action, messy consequences. (SFFWorld)

I had an absolute blast with this book . . . his work really does get better and better. (Falcata Times)

Book Description

The beginning of a new series from a master of space opera

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