The Technician

A high-octane space opera from a master of the genre. We'll learn of a long-buried alien secret, which could hold the key to humanity's survival. But only one man knows the truth - and some want him dead.

In Neal Asher''s The Technician , the Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada - but it is an order that the rebels of the Tidy Squad cannot accept, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is top of their hitlist. Its secrets could mean our survival . . . On the savage planet of Masada, one of the native aliens is spreading terror through the human population. It creates sculptures from its victims'' remains, earning it its nickname: the Technician. And only Jeremiah Tombs has survived an encounter. This sent him mad, but he may have learned something key to humanity''s survival - if he lives to remember it. Jeremiah was a member of a brutal regime, now deposed, and a radical sect still wants its revenge. The Technician buried something in Jeremiah''s mind about the alien Atheter, an entire race that committed suicide. However, in seeking to understand their disappearance, we may somehow be attracting the same fate. And to unlock Jeremiah''s secrets, Polity operatives must keep him alive.

Autorentext
Neal 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.

Klappentext

He holds the key - if we can find it in time

On the savage planet of Masada, a native alien is spreading terror through the human population. It creates sculptures from its victims' remains, hence its nickname: the Technician. And only Jeremiah Tombs has survived an encounter with it. This sent him mad, but could have taught him something key to humanity's survival - if he lives to remember it. However, Jeremiah was a member of Masada's previous brutal regime, and a radical sect now wants him dead.

The Technician buried something in Jeremiah's mind about the alien Atheter, an entire race that committed suicide. However, in trying to understand their disappearance, we may be attracting the same fate. And to unlock Jeremiah's secrets, Polity operatives must keep him alive.

'Fun, fast, action-packed, filled with great world-building, and superbly drawn characters'
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'Beautifully sculpted and chillingly gruesome'
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Zusammenfassung
A high-octane space opera from a master of the genre. We'll learn of a long-buried alien secret, which could hold the key to humanity's survival. But only one man knows the truth and some want him dead.