The Line of Polity - Neal Asher - Book Review
Skipping my usual procedure (one book in the series, one out of the series) when I find a book series I like, I've just finished In the Line of Polity, by Neal Asher.
I did consider reading something else, but couldn't resist. :-)
It was even better than the first. The story revolves about Ian Cormac, the ECS super-agent, and an evil scientist which not only doesn't mind doing human testing, is now working for the separatists. And now he has an embedded AI and Jain tech (looks a bit like classic magical nanotech - but it is sentient and it is a bit implied that it is the Jain *race*) - which makes him capable of a lot of damage...
Most of the major players of the first book (Gridlinked) are here again - including another segment of Dragon.
There are plenty of other threads in the story. Sometimes, notably with David Webber novels, I find myself bothered by some of them, and waiting for the better ones to return. That is not the case here - everything works well together.
The Masadan version of the fairy tales - Mortal Tales - were particularly cute.
A lot of the action takes place in the planet Masada - which is dominated by a theocracy and full of cool and deadly creatures. Masada ends up in a war with the rebels, that are trying to get the ECS to take over.
Very much recommended.
On a random comment, the various adapts and cosmetic changes on the Polity universe do remind of MMOs. I imagine it would be good fodder for a MMO or a large sandbox game (at the very least, you could have plenty of character classes and mods without having to make up anything outside the regular story lines).
Of course, getting those right from any existing property is usually a challenge...
I did consider reading something else, but couldn't resist. :-)
It was even better than the first. The story revolves about Ian Cormac, the ECS super-agent, and an evil scientist which not only doesn't mind doing human testing, is now working for the separatists. And now he has an embedded AI and Jain tech (looks a bit like classic magical nanotech - but it is sentient and it is a bit implied that it is the Jain *race*) - which makes him capable of a lot of damage...
Most of the major players of the first book (Gridlinked) are here again - including another segment of Dragon.
There are plenty of other threads in the story. Sometimes, notably with David Webber novels, I find myself bothered by some of them, and waiting for the better ones to return. That is not the case here - everything works well together.
The Masadan version of the fairy tales - Mortal Tales - were particularly cute.
A lot of the action takes place in the planet Masada - which is dominated by a theocracy and full of cool and deadly creatures. Masada ends up in a war with the rebels, that are trying to get the ECS to take over.
Very much recommended.
On a random comment, the various adapts and cosmetic changes on the Polity universe do remind of MMOs. I imagine it would be good fodder for a MMO or a large sandbox game (at the very least, you could have plenty of character classes and mods without having to make up anything outside the regular story lines).
Of course, getting those right from any existing property is usually a challenge...
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