Brass Man
By Neal Asher
July 2006
Pan Books
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780330411592
568 Pages, 4 1/4 x 7"
$17.95 Paper Original
On the primitive world of Cull, a knight errant called Anderson is hunting
a dragon, little knowing that far away someone else (now more technology
than human flesh) has resurrected a brass killing machine called ‘Mr
Crane’ to assist in a similar hunt encompassing star systems.
When
agent Cormac learns that this old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit
aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch … whilst scientist Mika begins discovering
the horrifying truth about that ancient technology ostensibly produced by
the alien Jain.
Meanwhile, for the people of Cull, each day proves a struggle to survive
on a planet roamed by ferocious insectile monsters, while they slowly construct
the industrial base that may enable them to escape to their forefathers’ starship
-- still orbiting far above them.
But an entity with questionable motives,
calling itself Dragon, assists them with genetic by-blows created out of
humans and the hideous local monsters. And now the planet itself, for millennia
geologically inactive, is increasingly suffering earthquakes…
'Compelling reading... Asher has become a resounding and distinctive voice in British SF' SFRevu