Cowl
23 January 2020Imprint: Tor
Synopsis
Neal Asher is on top form in Cowl, his fast-paced space opera.
Cowl was a human.
Now he's the nightmare you never imagined . . .
In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time. The worst is Cowl – originally human, until artificially-forced evolution made him something else...
Details
23 January 2020480 pages
9781529002287Imprint: Tor
Reviews
In Cowl Neal Asher seems to be doing to the time-travel adventure what he has been doing to space opera and planetary romance: to pump it full of performance-enhancing substances and send it crashing through a gigantically expanded version of its traditional milieu, exploding the big sets and sending body parts flying in all directions.Locus
Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brainJohn Scalzi on The Soldier
The Soldier provides everything we demand from Asher: a beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to elevenPeter F. Hamilton on The Soldier
The whole impressive, ingenious enterprise hurtles along at a high-octane clip while swinging with nonchalant abandon between horror and comedy: call it black slapstick. In sum: a blastKirkus on The Skinner
