But the gate itself is rapidly shut down and dumped into a nearby sun-something alien is pursuing them. Polity Agent – From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity, allowing a ragged tide of refugees through as they attempt to take the alien “Maker” back to its home civilization.

And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac. Crane, the insane indestructible artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. Crane” to assist in a similar hunt, encompassing whole star systems.

Brass Man – Ian Cormac is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected a horrific killing machine named “Mr.

Nobody knows why, but all the signs point to Dragon, a gigantic bioconstructed entity. The outlink station of Miranda has been destroyed. The Line of Polity – On a remote planet, with mysterious forces swirling around him, Agent Ian Cormac returns to face a threat that could endanger the entirety of the Polity.Now, he must learn to do without, just as he’s sent to investigate a unique runcible disaster that’s wiped out the entire human colony on planet Samarkand in a thirty-megaton explosion. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net. Unfortunately, Cormac is nearly burnt out, “gridlinked” to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. Gridlinked – Ian Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future where “runcibles” allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity.The Polity series is made up of several interconnected books and stories, each one following a different set of characters as they navigate the complex and sometimes dangerous world of the Polity Universe. And when humanity finally encounters alien life-in the form of massive, hostile carnivores known as the Prador-there can only be one outcome. The worlds of the Polity stretch from Earth Central into the unfathomable reaches of the galactic void. What is the Polity Universe about?Ĭoming from English science fiction writer Neal Asher, The Polity Universe is a space opera series that is composed of multiple series, mostly trilogies, and some standalone novels. Some hard science-fiction with political elements. Line War is where the Cormac novels have been heading.Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. Asher is brilliant at conveying the vastness of deep space, the strangeness of alien life forms and the sweep of planetary horizons – not to mention the vast sweep of the novel itself.

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