A Quantum Murder
10 best books like A Quantum Murder (Peter F. Hamilton): Century Rain, The Line Of Polity, Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Polity Agent, Brass Man, The Technician, Shadow of the Scorpion, Nova War
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441013074 |
Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose.
Something...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0330484354 |
Short Review vs Long Review
Dooble-ooble-caro-flock!
- Gabbleduck quote
(very) Short review
This book (and the Polity series so far) is friggin’ awesome, read it! The end.
(fairly) Long review
The Outlink stations were poised on the surface...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765349051 |
Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.
Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765350483 |
Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner.
On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0330411608 |
Does anyone remember the time when SF was all about the weird and wonderful? When it was all about the strangest aliens and incomprehensible worlds? When awe met terror, spiced it up with truly amazing worldbuilding, and then threw us into a really F***ed up world?
I do. I've been chasing that...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0330441523 |
From eight hundred 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 downbecause...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765317311 |
Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr....
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0230708749 |
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 hitlist.
Escaping his sanatorium Tombs...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1597801399 |
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to...
| Author | Gary Gibson |
| ISBN | 0230706800 |
Before I even launch into this review I have one word: Emissary.
Imagine an alien race that is half Cthulhu, half Mammoth and all bad attitude. If that doesn’t inspire you to read Nova War I’m afraid nothing will.
What a fun book! Filled with violence and sense-of-wonder, the second...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1405055014 |
The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0230708722 |
As always, I'm surprised at how much I am eventually able to get into the psychology and biology and all the weirdness of the Prador aliens. I vacillate between annoyance and fascination.
Fortunately, I got into this by the end. Spatterjay's humble beginnings become very clear and the whole...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0230750702 |
So here we are at part two of Neal Asher’s ‘Owner’ trilogy and it’s fair to say that this volume takes a while to get going. Whereas the first book was an exciting rush of adrenalin pumping events, racing along as if believing that every one of its readers was addicted to high-octane videogames,...
