Summary
He’s the nightmare you never imagined
In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time. The worst is Cowl - originally human, until artificially-forced evolution made him something else entirely.
Polly is unprepared for her involvement with Nandru Jurgens. He’s a Taskforce soldier, now hunted by killers. Nor can Polly resist the alien ‘tor’ she’s compelled to attach to her arm. But when …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529002287 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529002281 |
| Author: | Neal Asher |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Tor |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
In Cowl Neal Asher seems to be doing to the time-travel adventure what he has been doing to space opera and planetary romance: to pump it full of performance-enhancing substances and send it crashing through a gigantically expanded version of its traditional milieu, exploding the big sets and sending body parts flying in all directions. * Locus *
Neal Asher’s books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain – John Scalzi on The Soldier
The Soldier provides everything we demand from Asher: a beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven – Peter F. Hamilton on The Soldier
The whole impressive, ingenious enterprise hurtles along at a high-octane clip while swinging with nonchalant abandon between horror and comedy: call it black slapstick. In sum: a blast * Kirkus on The Skinner *
His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that treats the reader as an adult rather than an educationally subnormal adolescent * The Times on The Skinner *
Neal Asher
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:
- Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War.
- Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus.
- Standalone novels (set in the Polity): Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion and The Technician.
- The Transformation trilogy (based in the Polity): Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine.
- Dystopian future novels: The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War.
- Cowl
- Rise of the Jain series (set in the Polity universe): The Soldier, The Warship.
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