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I discovered the Agent of the Polity series through an article on post-singularity science fiction and came to like them well enough that I binged through all of them and then went through pretty much all the rest of the Polity books, despite the fact I do not favor prequels over books that move the timeline of a series forward into unexplored territory.

Now with the Owner books, however, I have to question whether it was Neil Asher or perhaps just the Polity that I was enjoying so much.

Aside from being a rather grim take on the next hundred and fifty years, I don't find it easy, or even especially desirable, to empathize with many, if any, of the characters. Granted, this was kind of a weak spot in the Polity, too, but not nearly so much. Signature Asher elements are here, mega-violence, new technologies (or new takes on existing ones), and so on, but at times I really did forget I was reading a Neil Asher and found myself skimming through parts. Page after page of one person, all alone, digging for oxygen bottles, or moving stuff around, just doesn't do much to advance the story or the characterization so far as I'm concerned.

From time to time, too, it felt like The Owner was being given little setbacks every time he started pulling too far away from the competition, just for the sake of not showing it as a total walkover. I know a lot of fiction does this, to one degree or another, but it felt more obvious than usual here, with less other stuff, humor, characterization, mysteries, etc. to distract us from the tennis match.

Overall, I don't regret reading them, but I doubt I will ever reread them, as I probably will with some of the Polity books, someday.

On a minor note, life has been good enough that I don't let a $13.99 price tag per book stand in the way of my reading one book or even a long series, if I am willing to put the time into reading it in the first place, but it feels like rather a lot and I know there were times in my life where it just would have been out of the question to pay that much for an ebook . . . had ebooks existed.


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Zero Point Neal Asher 9780230750708 Books Reviews

Dystopian Earth, ruled by the Committee, was brought down by a single human/computer entity, who escaped to an asteroid space station orbiting Earth. This is the Departure, Part 1 of the Owner series by Neal Asher. It was good, suspenseful, and powerful. Zero Point is part 2 and just as suspenseful and powerful. The committe is gone, but now through the lack of infrastructure caused by the devastation of Earth's systems by The Owner in Part 1, Serene Galahad as the new Chairman. A deceptive name, she has no reservation in ordering society on Earth as she chooses and she chooses that Earth's population is too large and so easily arranges the deaths of over 10 billion people using technology of which she was in charge before The Owner changed everything. And after she comfortably eliminates so many billions of people and sets Earth to rebuilding the society she envisions, she must stabilize her regieme in this Solar System. She must eliminate the rebels wherever they may be and The Owner on Argus station is her next target. And after that, the rebels on Mars.
Neal Asher's ability to impute and effectively relate the motivations of every character participating in his story is truly amazing.

He is incredibly effective anti-communist/socialist invectives were simply an added bonus to this amazing and oh so very dark story. He applied his incredibly sharp insight and wit to an even more current and more obvious problem.

Neal Asher carries on in the tradition of Orwell in terms of warning the masses of the horrors that lie within the technological and philosophical suppression of free will in the interests of tyranny. With the insight that 75 years of technological advancement have given Mr. Asher, his warnings and his predictive abilities have only become more accurate, more realistic and more horrifying than Mr. Orwell's could have ever hoped to have been.

Beyond its technical and storytelling achievement, this story serves as a Cassandra like warning to those who would consolidate unrestricted and unopposed power within the face of centralized government.

If all men were angels, why would we need a God? If all men were Devils, of what use would a God be?
This second book in the Owner series, like everything else I've ever read of Neal Asher's, is hyperbolically violent and intensely enjoyable from start to finish. What is very interesting is that unlike the Polity series (his previous longest-running sequential storyline/universe), this one is set in the relatively near future. What is somewhat frightening is that Asher very convincingly manages to paint a future that could still possibly happen, and then constructs very believable and really interesting characters to anchor his plots to. One of the things I really like about Asher, especially in this newest series, is that he manages to accurately paint the story from each character's perspective in such a way that while you (rarely) actually empathize with any of the more clearly psychopathic characters, you get a really good idea why they do the things they're doing.

Asher continues to be, as he has been for at least the last decade, one of my five favorite top science fiction authors of all time. I can't wait for the third one.
I discovered the Agent of the Polity series through an article on post-singularity science fiction and came to like them well enough that I binged through all of them and then went through pretty much all the rest of the Polity books, despite the fact I do not favor prequels over books that move the timeline of a series forward into unexplored territory.

Now with the Owner books, however, I have to question whether it was Neil Asher or perhaps just the Polity that I was enjoying so much.

Aside from being a rather grim take on the next hundred and fifty years, I don't find it easy, or even especially desirable, to empathize with many, if any, of the characters. Granted, this was kind of a weak spot in the Polity, too, but not nearly so much. Signature Asher elements are here, mega-violence, new technologies (or new takes on existing ones), and so on, but at times I really did forget I was reading a Neil Asher and found myself skimming through parts. Page after page of one person, all alone, digging for oxygen bottles, or moving stuff around, just doesn't do much to advance the story or the characterization so far as I'm concerned.

From time to time, too, it felt like The Owner was being given little setbacks every time he started pulling too far away from the competition, just for the sake of not showing it as a total walkover. I know a lot of fiction does this, to one degree or another, but it felt more obvious than usual here, with less other stuff, humor, characterization, mysteries, etc. to distract us from the tennis match.

Overall, I don't regret reading them, but I doubt I will ever reread them, as I probably will with some of the Polity books, someday.

On a minor note, life has been good enough that I don't let a $13.99 price tag per book stand in the way of my reading one book or even a long series, if I am willing to put the time into reading it in the first place, but it feels like rather a lot and I know there were times in my life where it just would have been out of the question to pay that much for an ebook . . . had ebooks existed.