On top of this we have a good dose of post cyber-punk motifs including benign ruling AIs, humans augmented with electronics, Virtual Reality, a mighty information grid (presumably descendant of The Net) and memcrystals. Meanwhile, a haiman (a human highly augmented with AI) Orlandine engages in careful research of the Jain node she has in her possession - will she manage to control and harness its power or will it, inevitably, subsume and destroy her?Įven from this brief plot teaser you can see that with Polity Agent we are firmly in the realm of high-tech space opera: interstellar travel through U-space, anti-gravity transport, spaceship battles, anti-matter guns, violent annihilation of whole planets. Who is distributing the nodes? What do they have to do with the giant biotechnology construct called Dragon produced by the Makers' civilisation, itself destroyed by Jain tech 800 years in the future? And what exactly is the mysterious entity calling itself the Legate representative of? Agent Cormac, Sparkind special forces members and various researchers and AIs combine forces to find answers to these questions and possibly save the Polity from destruction. Jain nodes, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations is rearing its ugly head again in the Polity. It's not part of a saga, though, and it's perfectly readable as a stand alone, as enough explanation (in fact, perhaps even bit too much, as it often is the case with s-f books) is provided. This is a fourth book set in the Polity and it features Agent Cormac and some other characters known from previous instalments.
Buy or borrow only if you are a fan of SAS-type space opera.
The ideas and the complex plot are there, but execution disappoints and the result is pretty average. Summary: This post cyberpunk space-opera with lots of bangs but somehow less real excitement will provide entertainment for fans of the genre but ultimately fails to deliver on its promise due to too much of technical detail and lack of social background.
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