This is a very different barely human race, machines and crab like creatures.I can say even though I have read books in this universe before I constantly flipping back to the glossary that is REALLY NEEDED for this book. This is space opera, but it is really intensely weird space opera with not really any characters that look or act like people in a recognizable sense. Having read several novels and stories set in the Polity I can't say how this book stands alone. In the Polity, this civilization has long been at war with crab creatures known as the Prador. Most humans are at least partly enhanced, so this novel is dominated by trans-human cyborgs and AI. The Polity, is the far future civilization of humanity, who are controlled by a central AI. While this is a new trilogy it takes place in the larger canon of Asher's work. I am not even close to having read all the books by Asher or in this series but when I saw this book had just come out and was the start of a new trilogy I was excited to give it a shot. That novel The Skinner is to me an absolute classic. Neal Asher wrote one of my favorite sci-fi novels, that happens to take place in this larger universe. Published May 15th 2018 by Night Shade Books
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