Polity Agent - Hardcover

Asher, Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405054980 ISBN 13: 9781405054980

Publisher: Tor, 2006

Synopsis

From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien ‘Maker’ back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down – because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun.

From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes . . . and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.

About this title

Review:

One of the best yet . . . destructive high Space Opera spectacle. (Starburst)

He’s got a fantastic eye for monsters, writes turbo-charged battle sequences, and can describe cosmic events and alien landscapes with an edge of evocative beauty. (SFX)

Big weapons, big monsters, and human disasters on an increasingly cosmic scale . . . A great novel in itself. (Interzone)

Book Description:

Space opera on a magnificent, non-stop roller-coaster of action

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405054980
• ISBN 13: 9781405054980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496