Neil Asher. Skyhorse/. Night Shade, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-59780-493-6
This dizzying and unusually thoughtful space opera, which concludes the trilogy begun in The Departure and Zero Point, shows the tyrannical forces of Earth trying to stop a lone genius from fleeing the solar system. Serene Galahad, Earth’s psychotic
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Neal Asher. Skyhorse/Night Shade, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59780-824-8
Asher (the Owner trilogy) delivers an exciting beginning to a new trilogy set in his Polity universe. During a war between humans and the crablike alien Prador, Thorvald Spear was killed by Penny Royal, a warped AI. More than a hundred years later,...
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Neal Asher. Skyhorse/Night Shade, $26.99 (478p) ISBN 978-1-59780-834-7
Asher’s complex second Transformation near-future space opera (after Dark Intelligence) follows the Machiavellian plans of a dark AI called Penny Royal as she tries (or appears to try) to avert war between the Polity, consisting of humans and AIs,...
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Neal Asher. Night Shade, $26.99 (488p) ISBN 978-1-59780-889-7
Asher (War Factory) completes his Transformation series with this powerful work that transcends the borders of morality, existence, and spacetime itself. The rogue AI Penny Royal continues to be the guiding force of this story, which centers on Room
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Neal Asher. Night Shade, $26.99 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59780-943-6
Asher (Infinity Engine) begins his new series set in the Polity universe with this adrenaline-charged work that brings the threat of the civilization-destroying Jain to the fore. Asher demonstrates his skill at creating alien actors with a cast of...
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Neal Asher. Night Shade, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59780-990-0
In this riveting sequel to The Soldier, Asher ramps up the pyrotechnics in the thunderous first salvoes of war between the human/AI Polity and the xenophobic Jain culture, which humans had believed long extinct. In the first book, a single Jain...
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Neal Asher. Night Shade, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-949102-37-6
Asher‘s Rise of the Jain trilogy comes to an explosive end with this superb, multimodal slugfest that still finds time for nuanced character development and philosophical conundrums. The plot picks up where The Warship left off, with a thousand-mile-
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