num_pages: 663
description: Full-scale action SF by one of Britain's most popular new writers.Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadnought, the Occam Razor, agent Cormac must investigate the disaster.Meanwhile, on the remote planet Masada, the long-term rebellion can never rise above-ground, as the slave population is subjugated by orbital laser arrays controlled by the Theocracy in their cylinder worlds, and by the fact that they cannot safely leave their labour compounds. For the wilderness of Masada lacks breathable air ... and out there roam monstrous predators called hooders and siluroynes, not to mention the weird and terrible gabbleducks.
language: English
title: The Line of Polity
titlecomplete: The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2)
characters: Jeremiah Tombs, Ian Cormac, Tomalon, Cento, Scar (Neal Asher), Aiden (Neal Asher), Horace Blegg, Eldene, Gant, Dragon (Neal Asher), John Stanton, Fethan, Thorn (Neal Asher), Mika (Neal Asher), Apis (Greek mythology), Skellor
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Aliens, Hard Science Fiction, Space, Fantasy, Adventure
ratings_count: 7372
places: Cheyne III, Occam Razor, Masada
series: Agent Cormac, Polity Universe (chronological)
publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd