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The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher
The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher






Maybe it’s a novel that makes you feel so much, that you tear up. An El Dorado in paper and ink that they seek, usually fruitlessly, across the many books they read, whether they even know it or not. Review: The Party - The Secret World of ChinaĪmazon (4) articles (4) australia (22) baby (67) bicycles (1) books (1297) books reviews (2) business (52) camping (46) campingl (1) car (25) coding (8) coffee (3) comcs (3) comics (112) comptuers (2) computers (324) concerts (2) culture (8) cycling (647) cyclling (3) dental (2) discounts (1) diving (13) economics (27) emacs (1) enivronment (1) environment (6) environmentalism (8) finance (112) food (18) funny (5) games (129) google (75) Greece (7) health (78) help (1) hiking (75) history (1) house (18) iceland (14) japan (38) japana (1) kayak (1) kids (174) Life on Mars (1) magazines (1) management (15) marathon (3) movie (22) movies (23) munich (57) music (20) nasal irrigation (2) oral (2) orbituary (1) PC (19) performance arts (2) personal (10) personal hygeine (3) phones (1) photography (69) photos (116) pic (1) Pictures (242) politics (7) programming (4) rant (1) recomended (1) recomm (1) recommended (1434) recommended.Everyone has a white whale of reading.What I particularly dislike is that his ideas are cool but it's also quite clear he's not a scientist and hence can't explain any of the "super-science" he uses and relies on as plot devices, so I would classify him in the "thriller" genre rather than the science fiction genre. I think Asher needs novel-length space in order to strut his stuff and ideas. Nevertheless, the parasites are at least interesting, though I suspect the source material is more interesting than Asher's stories.Īll in all, I can't recommend this book. Asher has a low opinion of religion (as do I), so I'm not sure how well these will go over with anyone who doesn't already agree with those views. There's also a time travel story that is OK, but not even close to being as good as Palimpsest, still the best time travel story I've read.įinally, there are two stories about parasites and religion. These are much less compelling, as the "Owner" always feels more like a deus ex machina than a proper story hook.

The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher

Then there came a sequence of "Owner" stories, effectively stories about a super-human intelligence that controls a planet that humans have chosen to settle on. The clash of causes explored was entertaining, but did not have sufficient time to develop. I enjoyed the story quite a bit, even though it was quite predictable what would happen. The opening story, "The Engineer" explores the discovery of a survivor of an extinct civilization.

The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher

Neal Asher's Gridlinked was a lot of fun, so I checked out The Engineer ReConditioned from the library to see if his short stories were up to par.








The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher