The Technician

Description

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.

Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between England and Crete. His full-length novels include Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Polity Agent, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War, Shadow of the Scorpion and Orbus.

The Technician is no doubt one of the best new novels I have read this year. It's got a fantastic inner journey with fast-paced alien-world action. * Cybermage * I know that when a tale from him arrives that I'm going to get a story that I absolutely love. * Falcata Times * Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain -- John Scalzi on The Soldier Magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven -- Peter F. Hamilton on The Soldier