The Soldier

✍ Scribed by Neal Asher

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Series: RISE OF THE JAIN 1
• Edition: 3
• Category: Fiction
• City: NIGHT SHADE Books, 2018.
• ISBN: 1597806404

✦ Synopsis

In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity's Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations.

Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they've placed an impartial third party in charge of the weapons platform guarding the technology from escaping into the galaxy: Orlandine, a part-human, part-AI haiman. She's assisted by Dragon, a mysterious, spaceship-sized alien entity who has long been suspicious of Jain technology and who suspects the disc is a trap lying-in-wait.

Meanwhile, the android Angel is planning an attack on the Polity, and is searching for a terrible weapon to carry out his plans?a Jain super-soldier. But what exactly the super-soldier is, and what it could be used for if it fell...

✦ Subjects

Fantasy fiction