The Warship (Rise of the Jain, 2) - Hardcover

Asher, Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509862501 ISBN 13: 9781509862504

Publisher: Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

In this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war.

Their nemesis lies in wait . . .

Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.

Earth Central, humanity’s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc.

The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she’ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – and the Jain have committed genocide before.

The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.

About this title

About the Author

Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. He is the creator of the Polity universe and author of the Agent Cormac series, the Spatterjay trilogy, the Transformation trilogy, the Rise of the Jain trilogy, and the Time’s Shadow trilogy. Also set in the world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Prador Moon, Hilldiggers, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four, Weaponized and War Bodies. The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War are set in a dystopian future and connect to his World Walkers novel, while Cowl transports us across time.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the Rise of the Jain trilogy

‘A beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven’
Peter F. Hamilton

‘Neal Asher’s books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain’
John Scalzi

‘A richly imagined, exotic world, non-stop action and unimaginable stakes – I couldn’t put The Soldier down’
Yoon Ha Lee

‘Epic space opera, weaponized Darwinism and high-stakes intrigue’
Paul McAuley

‘Full-tilt adventure and widescreen action, this is top-notch stuff from an author well and truly at the top of his game’
SFX

‘A mind-blowing start to the Rise of the Jain trilogy’
Worlds in Ink

‘One of the great writers of space opera today, right up there with the likes of Peter F. Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds’
Out of this World SFF Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509862501
• ISBN 13: 9781509862504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480