Цикл книг «Ян Кормак» — 6 книг

Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember.

In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or simply maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment.

There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some of them closer to him than he would like.

Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries merely to stay alive.

Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister…

Телепортация в любой уголок Вселенной в мире, созданном фантазией Нила Эшера, опасна не более, чем полеты на современном авиалайнере, вероятность ошибки при переносе к месту доставки составляет мизерные доли процента. И надо было такому произойти, что один из путешественников, телепортируясь на планету Самарканд звездной системы Анделлан, появился в пункте назначения со скоростью, почти равной скорости света. В результате от взрыва и его последствий гибнет население планеты. Что это: несчастный случай или заранее спланированный акт? Для расследования на планету телепортируют Яна Кормака, спецагента, подключенного к искусственному разуму Службы безопасности Земли.

Телепортация в любой уголок Вселенной в мире, созданном фантазией Нила Эшера, опасна не более, чем полеты на современном авиалайнере, вероятность ошибки при переносе к месту…

Масада — планета, на которой царит власть Теократии. С целью спровоцировать на планете восстание и включить ее в зону, контролируемую Правительством человечества, Центральная служба безопасности Земли направляет туда крейсер «Бритва Оккама». Корабль захватывает Скеллор, бежавший с Земли ученый, переделавший свой организм с помощью технологий, позаимствованных у древней цивилизации джайнов. Яну Кормаку, агенту службы безопасности, и его друзьям удается покинуть крейсер и высадиться на Масаду, где они принимают участие в восстании, поднятом силами Сопротивления. Тем временем Скеллор направляет корабль на планету, намереваясь уничтожить ее…

Масада — планета, на которой царит власть Теократии. С целью спровоцировать на планете восстание и включить ее в зону, контролируемую Правительством человечества, Центральная…

Brass Man is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.
On the primitive world Cull, a knight errant called Anderson hunts a dragon, not knowing that elsewhere is a resurrected brass killing machine, Mr Crane, assisting in a similar hunt. Learning that this old enemy still lives, agent Cormac pursues, while scientist Mika begins discovering the horrifying truth about an ancient alien technology. Each day is a survival struggle for the people of Cull. Ferocious insectile monsters roam their planet, as they try 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 supposedly geologically inactive planet itself is increasingly suffering earthquakes . . .

Brass Man is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.
On the primitive world Cull, a knight errant called Anderson hunts a dragon, not knowing that elsewhere…

Polity Agent is the fourth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.
From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it have been tasked with taking the alien `Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them. From those who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive bioconstruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing toxic Jain nodes . . . and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself . . .

Polity Agent is the fourth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.
From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it…

The Line War is the fifth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebus's attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself . . .

The Line War is the fifth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology,…