基本信息出版社：Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
页码：568 页
出版日期：2006年07月
ISBN：0330411594
International Standard Book Number：0330411594
条形码：9780330411592
EAN：9780330411592
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 On the primitive world of Cull, a knight errant called Anderson is hunting a dragon, little knowing that far away someone else (now more technology than human flesh) has resurrected a brass killing machine called 'Mr Crane' to assist in a similar hunt encompassing star systems. When agent Cormac learns that this old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch ...whilst scientist Mika begins discovering the horrifying truth about that ancient technology ostensibly produced by the alien Jain. Meanwhile, for the people of Cull, each day proves a struggle to survive on a planet roamed by ferocious insectile monsters, while they slowly construct the industrial base that may enable them to escape to their forefathers' starship - still orbiting far above them. But an entity with questionable motives, calling itself Dragon, assists them with genetic by-blows created out of humans and the hideous local monsters. And now the planet itself, for millennia geologically inactive, is increasingly suffering earthquakes ...'Compelling reading ...Asher has become a resounding and distinctive voice in British SF' - "SFRevu".
作者简介 Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and still lives nearby. He had many stories and novellas published before embarking on a sequence of full-length novels: Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity and Cowl.
媒体推荐 <DIV>"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
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