The Technician: A Novel of the Polity - Softcover

Asher, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597805300 ISBN 13: 9781597805308

Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2015

Synopsis

• A stirring stand-alone novel set in Neal Asher’s Polity universe
• Set in the world of A Royal Shade of Blue, Soldier, and Gridlinked
• Ideal for fans of Asher’s Rise of the Jain series

This space opera is set in the well-designed Polity universe with a rich backstory. Now available in the US, The Technician will delight old and new fans with Asher’s grand, complex, and dark story. 

The Theocracy died 20 years ago, and the Polity rules on Masada. But there is a group of rebels, called the Tidy Squad, who cannot accept the new order. They hate the surviving theocrats, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hit list.

After breaking out of his sanatorium, Tombs is pushed into painful confrontations with all that he has avoided since the rebellion. Many years ago, an almost mythical hooder called the Technician attacked him and did something to his mind. Tombs’s insanity needs to be cured, because he might have knowledge about the suicide of an entire alien race. The war drone Amistad, who has the task of bringing this information to light, recruits Leif Grant, a former rebel Commander, to protects tombs. Penny Royal and Chanter are recruited as well. Meanwhile, far off in deep space, the device that Atheter used to reduce them animals awakens and begins to power its weapons.

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Product Description:

A stirring stand-alone novel set in Neal Asher s Polity universe. The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hit list. Escaping his sanatorium, Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with the reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity must be cured, because the near-mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago did something to his mind that even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race. The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Leif Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too. Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals stirs from slumber and begins to power up its weapons. With an intriguing and well-developed back story, this space opera, published for the first time in the United States, is a first-rate example of the grand, dark, and complex story Neal Asher fans have come to expect."

Review:

The Technician is no doubt one of the best new novels I have read this year. It got a fantastic inner journey with fast-paced alien-world action. (Cybermage)

I know that when a tale from him arrives that I’m going to get a story that I absolutely love. (Falcata Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1597805300
• ISBN 13: 9781597805308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512