The Departure (Owner Trilogy #1)

Author: Neal Asher

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780330457613
  • : Pan Macmillan
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  • : February 2012
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : June 2012
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  • : 6-Dec
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  • : English
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Description

The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources, and they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilised. So corruption is rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanised overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry, taking carnage to a new level. This is the world Alan Saul wakes to, travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn't know, but he remembers pain and his tormentor's face. He also has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their regime. Once he's discovered who he was, and killed his interrogator ...'Full-tilt action sequences ...Delivers plenty of thrills' SFX 'Fast, dramatic stuff ...definitely not one for the faint hearted' SFFWorld.com 'I had an absolute blast with this book ...his work really does get better and better' FalcataTimes blog

Reviews

'Full-tilt action sequences Delivers plenty of thrills' SFX 'Fast, dramatic stuff definitely not one for the faint hearted' - SFFWorld.com 'I had an absolute blast with this book his work really does get better and better' - FalcataTimes blog

Author description

Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous novels include the Agent Cormac series (Gridlinked +4), Spatterjay series (The Skinner +2), Polity series (Prador Moon +4) and The Owner trilogy (The Departure, Zero Point +1). He has also written The Gabble: And Other Stories