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    Infinity Engine: Transformation Book Three
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    Infinity Engine: Transformation Book Three

    By Neal Asher

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    In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play.

    Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who has escaped the Polity’s confinements and is upgrading itself in anticipation of a deadly showdown, becoming ever more powerful and intelligent.

    Aboard Factory Station Room 101, the behemoth war factory that birthed Penny Royal, groups of humans, alien prador, and AI war drones grapple for control. The stability of the ship is complicated by the arrival of a gabbleduck known as the Weaver, the last living member of the ancient and powerful Atheter alien race.

    What would an Atheter want with the complicated dealings of Penny Royal? Are the Polity and prador forces playing right into the dark AI’s hand, or is it the other way around? Set pieces align in the final book of Neal Asher’s action-packed Transformation trilogy, pointing to a showdown on the cusp of the Layden’s Sink black hole, inside of which lies a powerful secret, one that could destroy the entire Polity.
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    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateMar 21, 2017
    ISBN9781597805995
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    Neal Asher

    Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four and Weaponized. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is comprised of The Soldier, The Warship and The Human, and is also set in the Polity universe.

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    • 4/5
      By the end of the middle book in this trilogy I was having some doubts about this whole enterprise and whether Asher would pull it all together in a satisfying manner between how Penny Royal's effortless manipulations of events were stretching my suspension of disbelief, Thorvald Spear's growing doubts about his whole mission in pursuing the AI being and the apparent demise of the Prador father-captains whose fight drove much of the plot up till that point. At the end of the day Asher does pull it all together though, even if the increasing emphasis on the character The Brockle feels like some sort of reverse deus ex machina deployed to keep the plot machinery going. The main point is that Spear does work though his emotional and philosophical issues in a convincing fashion so that when the emotional climax of the book is reached the pay-off feels like it's been earned. I'll admit that I wish that the people who react viscerally to Asher's politics (a no-nonsense Libertarianism) could offer an informed critique vis-a-vis the man's fiction but this trilogy can be read as a tract against a certain ends-justify-the-means mentality; even if one is truly caught in such a position of existential survival the moral and psychological costs are high and Asher does seem to be trying to deal honestly with the with the implications of the universe he's created. Certainly some of main characters, human and AI alike, are calling BS on the direction of the Polity before it's all over.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoy Neal Asher''s expansive, imaginative novels. This one has a particularly clever twist on the often popular notion that we are living in a computer simulation. Also lots of explosions, super science, and action, as well redemption for most of the main figures.
    • 4/5
      Pulls in all the threads from the previous two books and deftly ties them all together. A fantastic finale. Highly recommended: just make sure to read the entire trilogy back-to-back, there's so much going on here.
    • 3/5
      Good, but too much with the AI as god stuff. Basically, everyone has faith. The god like knowledge of the future is a bit much, and the twist on that is reminiscent of Dune.
    • 4/5
      the last book in the Transformation Trilogy, and a pivotal book in the Polity Universe. the AIs gather, the various races drift in, technology makes enormous leaps, and the universe is at stake. there's a great sense of urgency to the story, and it turns out to be oddly uplifting; his universe is darker, but it reaches here to a sense of big-picture (and it's a very big picture) optimism, about the AIs and what they opt to take from and make of the human race. great end sequence, with a terrific last line.