

- Space warfare, Human-alien encounters, Robots, Artificial intelligence
After awakening one hundred years after his death at the hands of a haywire AI, Thorvald Spear vows revenge on the machine intelligence and marshalls Isobel Satomi, former criminal and part AI herself, to his cause.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Neal L. Asher
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Pan Books, Night Shade
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509868513
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