A MAN FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE
AND TWO AIS WILL BATTLE FOR ULTIMATE SUPREMACY
Several forces pursue rogue artificial intelligence Penny Royal - hungry for revenge or redemption. And the Brockle is the most dangerous of all. This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped confinement and is upgrading itself, becoming ever more powerful ahead of their showdown.
Events also escalate aboard the war factory. Here Thorvald Spear, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to stay alive, battling insane AIs and technology gone wild. Then the Weaver arrives - the last of a race that suicided two million years ago. But what is its connection to Penny Royal's tortuous plans? And beyond the war factory, a black hole conceals a secret which could destroy the Polity. As AIs, humans and prador clash at its boundary, will anything survive their explosive final confrontation?
PRAISE FOR THE SERIES
'What Asher delivers here is state-of-the-art SF on so many levels'
Locus
'Nobody does science-fiction like Neal Asher'
SFFWorld
'A stunning conclusion. . . A mind-blowingly brilliant read'
Worlds in Ink
© 2025 momox SE Berlin. Buy used CDs, DVDs, books, films and games cheaply and securely online.