{"title":"Neal Asher","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eNeal Asher\u003c\/strong\u003e. Our range covers science fiction. Reader favourites include \u003cem\u003eDark Agent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Walkers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWar Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for adult readers. Shop all our Neal Asher books below, delivered across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781529002287","title":"Cowl","description":"In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time and undo their defeat. The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt. Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. It sheds its scales—each one an organic time machine—where its master orders. Anyone who picks one up is dragged back to the dawn of time, where Cowl awaits. Then the beast can feed, growing ever larger . . . In our own near-future, Tack is one of U-gov's programmable killers. When a scale latches onto him, his doom seems inevitable, but the Heliothane have other ideas: they can use Tack against Cowl. Once one of Tack's targets, Polly escaped with her life when a torbeast scale snatched her.. 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They were infected by the virus during the last humans-versus-prador war, now lapsed into an uneasy truce. But the prador are always looking for new weapons - and their experimentation program might give them the edge they seek.Suzeal trades human slaves out of the Stratogaster Space Station. She thinks the rewards are worth the risks, but all that is about to change. The Station was once a zoo, containing monsters from across known space. All the monsters now dwell on the planet below, but they aren't as contained as they seem. And a vengeful clone may be the worst danger of all.Prasie for Neal Asher:\"Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain.\" John Scalzi\"Magnificently awesome... Asher turns it up to eleven.\" Peter F. 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Here Thorvald Spear, alien prador, and an assassin drone struggle to stay alive, battling insane AIs and technology gone wild. Then the Weaver arrives - last remnant of a race that died out two million years ago. But what could it contribute to Penny Royal's tortuous plans?And beyond the war factory a black hole conceals a tantalizing secret which could destroy the Polity. As AIs, humans and prador clash at its boundary, will anything survive their explosive final confrontation?\"Transcends the borders of morality, existence, and spacetime itself.\" - Publishers Weekly","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40821995077747,"sku":"9781509868537","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/81JqW3_RCjL.jpg?v=1752668703"},{"product_id":"9781035037940","title":"Dark Diamond","description":"Doomed to die. 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He must go through the traumatic experience again and again until he escapes.\n\nEvery encounter Blite survives generates a time flash which reveals potential futures. This extraordinary phenomenon attracts the attention of Polity agents and the crab-like p-Prador who wish to acquire this power for themselves. 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But these beliefs are upended with the arrival of the human Polity - and their presence ignites rebellion.\n \n Piper was raised as a weapon against the Cyberat, implanted with secretive hardware. When his parents are captured by the Old Guard, the Polity offer him unexpected aid. Piper knows the Polity want more from him, but at what cost? The rebellion also attracts the deadly prador, placing an entire world in peril.\n \n As war rages across the planet, Piper must battle with the unknown technology implanted in his bones. It may be the Polity's answer to their relentless fight against the prador. 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They must fight their way through the chaos as they seek to repair Blite's damaged ship. But their escape requires resources from the Bracken, and aboard that ship, a terrifying transformation is underway . . .\n \n Recognizing the threat posed by the p-prador, the Prador Kingdom and the human Polity's ruling AI form an uneasy alliance. But with Straeger's plans unfolding and reality itself under threat, the galaxy is poised on the brink of destruction. 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But when Ottanger is captured, tortured and made the subject of a strange experiment by the Inspectorate, he discovers otherwise - his mutation allows him to walk between alternate worlds.\n \n When Ottanger is thrown from his timeline from the far future he meets the Fenris, humanity's future form. Ottanger is a survivor of the Fenris' altruistic experiment to create world walkers, their goal to help humanity escape their decaying version of Earth. But there are too few of Ottanger's fellow world walkers to make a difference. And the multiverse has revealed an even greater threat than the Committee and its harsh regime.\n \n There's a form of humanity that functions as one mind, and it is anathema to the Fenris. Now the trillion-strong hive has noticed the Fenris' experiments with world walkers. It wants this technology. 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