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基本信息·出版社：Tor Books
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2005年05月
·ISBN：0765315122
·International Standard Book Number：0765315122
·条形码：9780765315120
·EAN：9780765315120
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time and undo their defeat. The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt.
Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. It sheds its scales -- each one an organic time machine -- where its master orders. Anyone who picks one up is dragged back to the dawn of time, where Cowl awaits. Then the beast can feed, growing ever larger . . .
In our own near-future, Tack is one of U-gov's programmable killers. When a scale latches onto him, his doom seems inevitable, but the Heliothane have other ideas: they can use Tack against Cowl. Tack is no stranger to violence, but the Heliothane, hardened in their struggle for humanity's very existence, have much to teach him. He will need it all for his encounter with Cowl.
Once one of Tack's targets, Polly escaped with her life when a torbeast scale snatched her. Now, like Tack, she must learn fast as she is dragged back to Day Zero. To cheat death again, she will have to help him save the human race.
With
Cowl, Neal Asher, acclaimed author of
Gridlinked and
The Skinner, has created his most powerful novel yet.
作者简介 Neal Asher lives in Chelmsord, Essex, UK.
媒体推荐 "Asher does time travel and he does it damn well, taking the reader on a journey that would make one hell of a theme park ride!-
SFRevu.com"Time travel, ultraviolence, big dinosaurs -- the perfect mind-blasting SF cocktail."-
SFX magazine
"Asher has lit up the sky of Science Fiction like a new sun."-Tanith Lee
"Asher does time travel and he does it damn well, taking the reader on a journey that would make one hell of a theme park ride! (
SF Revu.com )
"Time travel, ultraviolence, big dinosaurs -- the perfect mind-blasting SF cocktail." (
SFX magazine )
"Asher has lit up the sky of Science Fiction like a new sun." (
Tanith Lee )
专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyLike "Kage Baker on steroids," says David Hartwell in his promotional letter, and indeed Asher's latest SF novel (after 2004's
The Skinner) bears definite similarities to Baker's popular tales of the Company. Both involve near-immortal time travelers who pursue complex, often mysterious objectives. But where Baker tends toward the literary and satirical, Asher prefers over-the-top violence and pyrotechnic super-science. In the near-future, Polly, a prostitute, and Tack, a government-programmed killer, get caught up in a war fought by superhuman antagonists from the future, the Heliothane and the Umbrathane. Neither side is particularly sympathetic, but the latter group is allied with the monstrous Cowl, an even more advanced being that threatens all human life. Cowl has let loose the torbeast, a ravening interdimensional creature the size of a small planet, and the Heliothane have reprogrammed Tack to go back in time and assassinate the monster. Well-done battle sequences, serviceable characters and an old-fashioned sense of wonder help offset a sometimes overly byzantine plot and a too-abstract depiction of time travel. Overall, this is an excellent read and should increase the author's growing reputation.
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