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Zusatztext A superb novel and Asher has an amazing talent for world-building! for writing larger-than-life characters! for weaving gripping plots and for imagining exotic alien races and wonderful technologies. Huge ships! Big weapons! Space battles! Ground battles! Treason! Revenge! This is New Space Opera at its best Informationen zum Autor Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between the UK and Crete. The majority of his novels are set within one future history, known as the Polity universe which encompasses many classic science fiction tropes including world-ruling artificial intelligences, androids, hive minds and aliens. His full-length novels include Gridlinked , The Skinner , The Line of Polity , Cowl , Brass Man , The Voyage of the Sable Keech , Hilldiggers , Prador Moon , Line War , Shadow of the Scorpion , Orbus and The Technician . His Owner series novels include The Departure , Zero Point and Jupiter War . Klappentext One man will transcend death to seek vengeance Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, resurrected after a war that ended a century ago. Spear had been trapped on a planet, surrounded by alien Prador - and the last thing he recalls is a rescue ship. Then he and his squad were killed by Penny Royal, the ship's artificial intelligence gone rogue. And it's still out there, so Spear vows to hunt it down. First he must find Isobel Santini. She ran a successful crime syndicate, before she paid Penny Royal for upgrades to make her part-AI. But they're turning her into a monster instead, so she helps Spear locate his target - until he also earns her wrath. As she evolves into the ultimate predator, will she turn Spear from hunter to hunted? 'Asher rocks . . . a vivid future' David Brin 'What Asher delivers here is state-of-the-art SF on so many levels . . . a compelling, smart read' Locus In the explosive, action-packed first book of Neal Asher's transformation trilogy, one man will do anything to hunt down his enemy in his quest for revenge. But will he become the hunted instead? Zusammenfassung Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. 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 that 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? ...
