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The Warship
Rise of the Jain (Related to this series)
- Author
- Neal Asher
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 13 June 2019
- Run Time
- 17 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
In this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war.
Their nemesis lies in wait . . .
Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.
Earth Central, humanity’s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc.
The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she’ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – and the Jain have committed genocide before.
The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.
Critics Review
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Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain
John Scalzi on The Soldier
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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
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A richly imagined, exotic world, non-stop action and unimaginable stakes - I couldn't put The Soldier down
Yoon Ha Lee, author of Ninefox Gambit, on The Soldier
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Neal Asher's coruscating mix of epic space opera, weaponized Darwinism and high-stakes intrigue channels the primal flame of deep-core science fiction
Paul McAuley, author of Four Hundred Billion Stars, on The Soldier
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Details
- Author
- Neal Asher
- Narrator
- Peter Noble
- Duration
- 17 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781509862528
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: space exploration
Synopsis
In this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war.Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.Earth Central, humanity’s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she’ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – and the Jain have committed genocide before.The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.
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