- Concentration camps, Fiction, Dystopias
Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus, the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers.
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Contemporary, grave, epic and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Neal L. Asher
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 497
- Publisher
- Tor, Pan Macmillan, Night Shade Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509868544
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