The Voyage of the Sable Keech (Spatterjay, Book 2)
by Neal Asher
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Author: Neal AsherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-31
ISBN: 0330411608
Number of pages: 584
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
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Book Review: Not Free SF Reader
Summary: 4 Stars
This is read Neal Asher books out of sequence week it seems.
From what I gather reading this, and the list of titles at the start, this book is a sequel or follow-on of sorts from The Skinner.
It is also set in his Polity future history.
There is a list of his titles, centred, in the middle of a blank page, and that is it. No indication of order or series or whether any are collections, or anything like that.
Very poor on the part of the publisher, some obvious advertising to be done there, and a waste of space and opportunity.
That said, the book is an amusing black humoured mostly planet bound space opera of sorts.
The planet in question has a bizarre ecology, where a leech born virus makes everything long lived and hard to kill, which leaves a particularly ultradeadly poison that is also native to the planet highly sought after, and also an important part of the ecosystem.
It isn't just animals this affects, but people - some of whom are thousands of years old.
The Sable Keech is a ship named after someone who appears to have been an important character in the previous book.
An alien in a sunken ship with a secret, a flying weird form golem with a secret, another golem with a secret, a passenger on one of the privateer ships with a secret, a revivified charter passenger with a nasty secret.
In fact, secrets everywhere, along with voracious wildlife, a couple of smart, and smartarse drones and an AI all finally come to a violent head.
This is Neal Asher after all, who is definitely of the plain-speaking and blow stuff up school of SF in general, but with weird monsters added.
I liked this one more than Brass Man, certainly made me chuckle in places.
A one line throwaway could be 'pirate adventure with monsters, robots and spaceships'.
3.5 out of 5
Summary of The Voyage of the Sable Keech (Spatterjay, Book 2)
Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else - adulation, power, control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison 'sprine' that is crucial to immortality - and, if so, maybe Janer must find it and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus, and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone shell. It's much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal weapons, thicker armour. He's going to need them.Literature & Fiction Books
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