A berserk AI runs rampant across galaxies in this explosive,
fast-paced follow-up to Dark Intelligence, continuing the new Polity
series Transformation from UK space opera master Neal Asher.
Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier,
continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal
on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and
deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy
Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict
with humanity.
Sverl, a Prador genetically modified by Penny Royal and slowly becoming
human, pursues a fellow Prador harboring deep hatred for the Polity and
looking to reignite the dormant war with mankind.
Blite, captain of a bounty-hunting ship, hands over two prisoners and
valuable memplants from Penny Royal to the Brockle, a dangerous
forensics entity with a keen interest in the corrupted AI and its
unclear motives.
Penny Royal meanwhile seeks Factory Station Room 101, a wartime
manufacturing space station thought to be destroyed. What does it want
with the factory? And will Spear find the rogue AI before it gets there?
War Factory, the second book in the Transformation trilogy, is
signature space opera from Neal Asher: breakneck pacing, high-tech
science, bizarre alien creatures, and gritty, dangerous far-future
worlds.
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