Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity
Neal L. Asher, . . Night Shade, $14.95 (222pp) ISBN 978-1-59780-052-5
Asher's enjoyable if violent SF novel pits heavily augmented posthumans and the AIs who rule them, the Polity Collective, against the Prador, vicious, bug-eyed aliens out to conquer all human space. The Polity Collective, an eminently civilized society, despite a small separatist underground that resents the AI's benign rule, stands in contrast to the crablike Prador, who rule by brute force. Since the Prador have a technological advantage in space warfare, two human beings—the super-soldier Jebel Krong and Moria Salem, a technician with an illicit brain augmentation—must combine their talents to try to destroy the impregnable Prador warship threatening humanity. The Polity novels (
Reviewed on: 05/22/2006
Genre: Fiction
Mass Market Paperbound - 320 pages - 978-1-59780-120-1