![]() ![]() This being a Neal Asher novel, however, these issues do not tend to incite esoteric, multi-page conversations exploring the finer points of morality. ![]() The first diplomatic meeting between the two races thus marks a bloody and explosive beginning to total war. The opening chapter describes the first meeting between Prador emissaries and a human Polity ambassador, the latter being promptly lifted by one claw belonging to the former, and then snipped in two. Polity style!" If you guessed that involved tea and crumpets, you're slightly off the mark. The back cover of Asher's latest has the heading, "It's first contact. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. ![]() Also from the Book Depository (free international shipping). Available from Amazon in paperback or kindle. ![]()
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