The Voyage of the Sable Keech - Review


The Voyage of the Sable Keech, by Neal Asher, is the second book in the Spatterjay series.

In the first book of the series, a reification - a high tech zombie that is driven by a recording of his own mind (usually) got resurrected by nanotech. What isn't clear in the first book is that not only this isn't common - it just has never happened before.

Thus, a mass of other reifications are coming to Spatterjay to try to get themselves resurrected too. Obviously that is not going to go very well...

Most of the characters of the first book are back. Of interesting note is that Captain Ron now flies spaceships, Olian Tay made a sprine bank that now is the basis of Spatterjay's economy, and the adolescent Prador, of course, survives.
Also, Janer is involved in a skirmish between hive minds that may destroy Spatterjay...

As usual on Asher's books, the Spatterjay virus leaves people, Pradors or Giant Whelks capable of almost anything, including massive, nearly instant body changes.

This mildly stretches any common sense, but if you don't pay attention and go with it, it is a pretty good book, too.

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