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 Cvorn, a Prador harboring deep
hatred for the Polity looking to use him and other hybrids 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 under strict confinement on a Polity spaceship that quickly takes a keen interest in the corrupted
AI and its unclear motives.
Penny Royal meanwhile continues to
pull all the strings in the background, keeping the Polity at bay and
seizing control of an attack ship. It seeks Factory Station Room 101, a
wartime manufacturing space station believed 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.
