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Lockdown Tales
A Science Fiction Short Story Collection by Neal L. Asher
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Short Story Collection,
- Space Opera,
- Artificial Intelligence
This book is for you if you're into...
- Weird creatures like mutated giant whelks and resurrected Golem
- Sassy A.I.s, war drones, and megalomaniacs in the Polity universe
- Short fiction with wild sci-fi invention and high-octane energy
Best-selling author Neal Asher was far from idle during the isolation of lockdown; he kept himself occupied in the best way possible: he wrote. And his imagination was clearly in overdrive. Five brand new novellas and novelettes and one novella reworked and expanded from a story first published in 2019. Together, they form Lockdown Tales, exploring the latter days of the Polity universe and beyond. What lies in wait for humanity after the Polity has gone?
Six stories, 150,000 words of fiction that crackle with energy, invention and excitement. Within their pages you will encounter prador, hoopers, sassy A.I.s, resurrected Golem, a mutated giant whelk that can ravage an island, hooders, megalomaniacs, war drones, Penny Royal, an intriguing sfnal take on High Planes Drifter and another with echoes of Robinson Crusoe... In fact, everything you might expect from concentrated Neal Asher and more.
Lockdown Tales: An introduction
The Relict
Monitor Logan
Bad Boy
Plenty
Dr. Whip
Raising Moloch
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