Agent Cormac pursues an old enemy in Brass Man, a broiling, sprawling, witty, hard-SF adventure, filled with the truly alien.
nNo one can outrun the past in Brass Man, is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.
Imperfectly resurrected by Jain technology, Mr Crane is back from the dead. The brass killing machine is haunted by a violent past he can't fully forget or truly remember. He seeks to heal his shattered mind as his new master, an old biophysicist enemy of Agent Cormac, sets him on an improbable mission: to hunt a dragon on the frontier world of Cull.
On Cull, each day is a struggle for survival. Ferocious insectile monsters roam the volatile planet. And the low-tech human settlers are desperate to reach their ancestors' starship - orbiting tantalisingly out of reach. An entity calling itself Dragon assists them, but what are its real motives, and why is the biophysicist really here? Cormac must find the answers, and face multiple threats to the Polity.
Brass Man is followed by Polity Agent, the fourth book in the Agent Cormac series.n
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Asher, NealnNeal 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.
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Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four and Weaponized. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is comprised of The Soldier, The Warship and The Human, and is also set in the Polity universe.
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WHO CAN AGENT CORMAC TRUST?
On Cull, each day could mean death. Ferocious insectile monsters roam the volatile planet, and the low-tech human settlers are desperate to escape to their ancestors' starship - orbiting tantalizingly out of reach. An entity calling itself Dragon assists them, but what are its real motives? Agent Ian Cormac is assigned to find out, while facing multiple threats to the Polity. And why is his old enemy, a master biophysicist, really here?
Meanwhile, imperfectly resurrected by Jain technology, Mr Crane is back from the dead. The brass killing machine is haunted by a violent past he can't fully forget or truly remember. He seeks to heal as his new master, Cormac's biophysicist foe, sets him an improbable mission: to hunt a dragon on the frontier world of Cull. But who will survive the imminent confrontation?
'Trademark Asher . . . Leaves one wanting much, much more'
Starburst
'Fizzing with intelligent ideas . . . Mind-boggling, fascinating - and irresistible'
Kirkus Reviews
Agent Cormac pursues an old enemy in Brass Man, a broiling, sprawling, witty, hard-SF adventure, filled with the truly alien.
