Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation trilogy by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following Dark Intelligence and War Factory • A man battles for his life, two AIs vie for supremacy and a civilization hangs in the balance… • Several forces now pursue rogue artificial intelligence Penny Royal, hungry for revenge or redemption. And the Brockle is the most dangerous of all. This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped confinement and is upgrading itself, becoming ever more powerful in anticipation of a showdown • Events also escalate aboard the war factory. Here Thorvald Spear, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to stay alive, battling insane AIs and technology gone wild. Then the Weaver arrives - last remnant of a race that died out two million years ago
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"Солдат" - первый роман из серии "Восстание джайнов" автора бестселлеров научной фантастики Нила Ашера • Ее миссия жизненно важна. Ее неудача немыслима • Этот сектор космоса кишит инопланетными технологиями, представляющими опасность для всей разумной жизни. Его охраняет Орландина, которая должна держать его в узде, иначе он может уничтожить целые цивилизации • Она вынашивает план уничтожения этой технологии, навсегда устранив угрозу. Ибо некоторые пойдут на все, чтобы использовать это древнее оружие, созданное давно вымершей расой под названием джайны • Тем временем человечество и инопланетная империя прадор также наблюдают за этим сектором космоса, поскольку ни один из них не может позволить другому претендовать на власть. И ситуация вот-вот изменится
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An epic adrenaline-filled space opera, The Human is the final thrilling book in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain trilogy • Their enemy seems unbeatable. But humanity is indomitable… • A Jain warship has risen from a prison five million years old, wielding a hoard of lethal technology. Its goal is to catch their old enemy, the Client, and it will destroy all who stand in its path • Humanity and the prador thought their mutual nemesis - the bane of so many races - was long extinct. But the Jain are back and Orlandine must prepare humanity's defence. She needs the Client's knowledge to counter this ancient threat. But is the enemy of your enemy a friend? Earth Central even looks to the prador for alliance. These old enemies must now learn to trust one another, or face utter annihilation
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Достаточно одной встречи, чтобы превратить мир в войну • Миры Государства простираются от Центральной Земли до непостижимых пределов галактической пустоты. И когда человечество наконец столкнется с инопланетной жизнью - в виде массивных враждебных хищников, известных как прадоры, - исход может быть только один. Тотальная война • Царит хаос, поскольку застигнутое врасплох правительство изо всех сил пытается восстановить контроль. Оно должно попытаться переделать себя в военное общество, поскольку звездолеты сталкиваются, планеты падают, а космические станции захвачены. Но для Джебеля Кронга и Мории Салем, оказавшихся в центре событий, эта война - нечто гораздо большее, чем столкновение культур или технологий против грубой силы. Эта война носит личный характер
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It was a quest for vengeance; now it’s full-blown rebellion • Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin. Its robotic enforcers also lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum, and the Committee’s Serene Galahad seizes command • On Mars, Var Delex is fighting to save the Antares Base. She must also crush the first signs of its own rebellion, while the Argus Space Station speeds towards the red planet. Var knows that whoever trashed Earth is still aboard. And aboard Argus Station, Alan Saul’s mind has expanded into its computer network. There, he learns of the Humanoid Unit Development and its ghastly experiments; the possibility of eternal life; and of a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight
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In a world devoid of hope, is revenge the only way out? • The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from here, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. It governs a corrupt world, where the poor are starving – and are policed by mechanized overseers wielding identity-reader guns. There are also too many people and too few resources, so the Committee has decided twelve billion people must die. So they prepare to unleash the full power of their Station’s weaponry to make this happen • Alan Saul wakes to this world, confined in a crate bound for a Calais incinerator. He doesn’t know why he’s there; he only remembers pain and his tormentor’s face. And he has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence, who is inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull
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Shadow of the Scorpion is a standalone prequel to Neal Asher’s explosive Agent Cormac series • Some secrets are too hard to bear • Following the human vs prador war, Ian Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security. He’s sent out to restore order on worlds devastated by alien bombardment. But he learns humanity can be far more dangerous – even those closest to him • Amidst the tragic ruins left by wartime atrocities, Cormac discovers in himself the cold capacity for violence. It’s a quality that’ll make him one of Earth’s top agents. Haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone, and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember, he’ll discover some hard truths. These will set him on a course of vengeance, where he’ll have to use all his hard-won skills just to stay alive
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Действие большей части художественной литературы Нила Ашера разворачивается в галактической цивилизации, которую он называет Государством, альянсе населенных людьми миров. И в этом сборнике из тринадцати удивительно изобретательных и остросюжетных рассказов Ашер находится на пике формы • Вы можете ожидать конфликтующих людей, дьявольски хитроумных поворотов сюжета, экстраординарных технологий и многого другого. Взыскательный читатель также может насладиться рассказами об инопланетных ядах, ходячих мертвецах, Море смерти и симбионте гниения • Никто не делает странных, замечательных и совершенно ужасных инопланетян лучше, чем Нил Ашер, так что приготовьтесь посетить его любимые фильмы. Познакомьтесь с образом жизни таких существ, как говорун и холдер, когда Ашер отправит вас в дикое путешествие в свое живо воображаемое будущее
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The hunter becomes the hunted in Gridlinked, the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series • When a portal to other planets explodes on Samarkand, thousands are killed and a terraforming project is obliterated. Earth Central Security suspects sabotage - and assigns a legendary investigator. But Agent Ian Cormac has his own problems. Years spent mentally linked to the Polity's AI network have eroded his humanity, and this gridlink has to be severed or he'll die. Without it, he has only his wits (and Shuriken, a throwing star with a mind of its own) to rely on • Cormac's disastrous last mission also haunts him - as a psychopath and a murderous android track him across the galaxy, seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the ice-bound planet of Samarkand hides deadly secrets beneath its surface
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War Master's Gate is the ninth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky • A city makes its last stand • The Empire's mighty imperial armies are marching on Collegium once more. They've learnt from past failures and this time their Empress will brook no weakness. Stenwold Maker's aviators still dominate the skies, but their rule will soon be over. For the Empire has developed a terrifying aerial weapon to level the battlefield • Yet victory may be decided elsewhere. In an ancient forest, where Mantis clans pursue their own civil war, Empress Seda is seeking a lost power from the old world. Cheerwell Maker knows she must stop her rival at any cost, but their conflict could awaken something far deadlier
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The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky • An empress demands her birthright • All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready their knives - while the people of Myna watch troops gather at its borders. Emotions run high as old fears reawaken. And in Collegium students argue politics, too late to turn the tide • At the heart of the Empire, new pilots complete their secretive training, generals are recalled to service and armies are readied to march. Their Empress, heir to two worlds, intends to claim her birthright. For nothing - either within the Empire or beyond it - will stand in her way
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The Scarab Path is the fifth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky • Ancient powers are waking • The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself broken in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past. Meanwhile, the powerful Wasp Empress is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow to her. But she draws her power from something more sinister than armies and war machines • Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth. As assassins seek to end him, he finds his life and his loyalties under threat once again. And in an ancient city beyond the desert, a terrible secret stirs beneath its stones
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