Cowl
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765315122 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt. Tack is no stranger to violence, but the Heliothane, hardened in their struggle for humanity's very existence, have much to teach him. It sheds its scales -- each one an organic time machine -- where its master orders. Now, like Tack, she must learn fast as she is dragged back to Day Zero. Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. With Cowl, Neal Asher, acclaimed author of Gridlinked and The Skinner, has created his most powerful novel yet.. In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, af
"Asher's take on time travel" according to Matt Hausig. Neal Asher has, in his Polity series, developed a reputation for writing well crafted, hyperviolent stories. In Cowl he ventures into the time travel vein. Time travel stories very often can't sustain enough believability to be immersive.Asher manages to keep the storyline from devolving to this point although there are portions later in the novel when the time travel theme becomes a bit muddled. I particularly liked the concept of a probability slope where timelines that diverge from the main line require ev. Real sci-fi kb4023 A sprawling tale about time travel that grabs you from the start with it's many threads. The science was interesting and the not the normal view of time travel. A great read.. "Counter-chronological parallel plots confusing and tedious" according to 2theD. Cowl is my sixth Asher novel to date and the only one to not be a part of either the Spatterjay series of the Ian Cormac series. However, Asher still weaves in his trademark weaponry, carnage, wide vocabulary and twisting plots into this standalone novel.Asher's luxurious niche in the world of sci-fi makes his novels predictable in some ways. Firstly, the sheer amount of weaponry is always staggering. Cowl is no exception to this rule, where there are hand-held missile launchers, rifles, daggers, grenades, di
From Publishers Weekly Like "Kage Baker on steroids," says David Hartwell in his promotional letter, and indeed Asher's latest SF novel (after 2004's The Skinner) bears definite similarities to Baker's popular tales of the Company. (May 18)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . But where Baker tends toward the literary and satirical, Asher prefers over-the-top violence and pyrotechnic super-science. Neither side is particularly sympathetic, but the latter group is allied with the monstrous Cowl, an even more advanc