Sur Spatterjay, les humains évitent comme la peste le contact avec les océans qui recouvrent quasiment toute la planète. Ils grouillent de créatures affamées et renferment un virus terrifiant.
Pourtant, trois personnages téméraires et que tout sépare partent pour une mission en pleine mer : Erlin, qui a découvert le secret de la planète ; Keech, un flic ressuscité après 700 ans pour retrouver un criminel ; et Janer, un humain qui communique avec les Guêpes, autre espèce terrestre intelligente. C'est le début d'un voyage sanglant et totalement fou à la rencontre de la pire entité de Spatterjay : l'Écorcheur.
Dans un futur très lointain, les Humains ont essaimé à travers les galaxies. Toutes les planètes colonisées sont gouvernées par le Polity, à quelques rares exceptions. La principale menace qui pèse sur le Polity, ce sont les Pradors, une race d'extraterrestres plus que belliqueux, malins et friands de chair humaine. Ian Cormac est l'un des agents du Polity. Soldat surentraîné, il est envoyé en mission sur une planète pour rétablir l'ordre après un génocide commis par les Pradors. Mais ces créatures monstrueuses ne sont pas les seuls ennemis. Au sein de sa propre équipe, Cormac découvre un complot de grande ampleur mené par un opposant au Polity qui met tout en oeuvre pour l'éliminer. Tandis que Cormac lutte pour sa survie, il se remémore ses années d'enfance : où et pourquoi son père est-il mort ? Pourquoi sa mère lui a toujours caché son passé ? Et surtout, quel est ce drone en forme de scorpion qu'il a aperçu plusieurs fois au cours de sa vie, telle une ombre bienveillante et terrifiante à la fois ?
B>Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher, following Dark Intelligence and War Factory./b>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. But what could it contribute to Penny Royal's tortuous plans?And beyond the war factory a black hole conceals a tantalizing secret which could destroy the Polity. As AIs, humans and prador clash at its boundary, will anything survive their explosive final confrontation?
Set in a lethal waterworld, this is the first novel in the Spatterjay series by Neal Asher
Weaponized is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher. A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past. With the advent of new AI technology, Polity citizens now possess incredible lifespans. Yet they struggle to find meaning in their longevity, seeking danger and novelty in their increasingly mundane lives. On a mission to find a brighter future for humanity, ex-soldier Ursula fosters a colony on the hostile planet Threpsis. Here, survival isn''t a given, and colonists thrive without their AI guidance. But when deadly alien raptors appear, Ursula and her companions find themselves forced to adapt in unprecedented ways. And they will be pushed to the very brink of what it means to be human. As a desperate battle rages across the planet, Ursula must dig deep into her past if she is to save humanity''s future.
B>Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe./b>One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed . . .Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs. alien war which ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, Penny Royal, the AI within the destroyer turned rogue. It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction, and, years later, it's still free. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down.Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she needed more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal. She paid it to turn her part-AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret. The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster, rapidly evolving into something far from human.Spear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI's last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator, rage soon wins over reason. Will Spear finish his hunt, before he becomes the hunted?
The beginning of a new series from a master of space opera
Dans un futur très lointain, deux civilisations post-humaines sont en guerre dans le système solaire. Grâce au voyage dans le temps l'une d'entre elles a pu remonter dans le passé afin de faire basculer le conflit. Mais ils ont donné naissance à une monstrueuse créature, Cowl, qui échappe peu à peu à leur contrôle et tente d'éradiquer les humains. Deux siècles avant cette guerre, la jeune Polly se retrouve malgré elle mêlée à cette guerre démentielle. Un supersoldat programmé pour la tuer l'entraîne dans un périple sanglant, un voyage dans le passé qui la conduira jusqu'aux origines mêmes de l'humanité...