Brass Man
by Neal Asher
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Author: Neal AsherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-23
ISBN: 0765317311
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Tor Books
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Book Review: Brass Man
Summary: 4 Stars
Brilliant! The fantastic murderous android from "Gridlinked" returns amidst shadows of mystery and splashes of blood. Asher is as on form as ever with his to-the-point, indomitable style as he resurrects the fan favourite.
Thankfully this isn't just a piece of mindless action for the fans, like many cash-in sequels. It is a well thought out thriller constructed around the resurgence of an ancient technology, a feature of Asher's Polity world that has been hinted at earlier in the series. Here we see a step away from technological threats toward organic threats, and interesting change in direction for the series that keeps things fresh. The characters have yet to become stale after three novels, particularly the dracomen and the massive, Delphic entity Dragon itself.
Frustratingly, the most mysterious character of the series remains a flat non-entity; Horace Blegg, who is deliberately kept as an enigma, features more as an annoyance now than an intriguing sub-plot. Presumably Asher caught on to this as the fourth book "Polity Agent" finally provides us with some answers to this flagging mystery. Similarly there are problems with additional characters added to the mix, such as the "knight" who is searching for his figurative dragon, who ultimately has little impact on the story. No doubt Asher will tie up this loose end in later novels, but it remains neglected entirely from the fourth book and the character seemed to have little, if nothing at all to do with the overall storyline.
These are small issues though, and the overall enjoyment of the book is left mostly unspoiled. Overall it's another wonderful and entertaining deep-space yarn that had me at least ordering the sequel before I'd even finished it ... 3.5 stars, but since I'm not allowed half measures I'll bump it up to a respectible 4!
Summary of Brass Man
From the Philip K. Dick Award nominee author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting, in a sequel to Gridlinked,?which SFRevu.com called??"brilliant and audacious work, chock-full of cutting-edge ideas."
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Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of? a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar?dragon, little knowing that, far away,?his competition?has resurrected an horrific?killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems.?Mr. Crane,?the insane indestructible artificial man now in a new metal body,?seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac.
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