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aphrael's review against another edition
3.0
captivating story with some interesting characters. the mystery isn't really all that original but the world and the conflict are well written. references to our current world broke the flow a bit for me. overall I enjoyed the book a lot though.
macindog's review against another edition
3.0
Hilldiggers is good, solid science-fiction set in the arena of Neil Asher's Polity, which I haven't sampled before now but am now quite keen to again.
The idea that human colonists could so genetically alter themselves to become what would be easily interpreted as aliens is a rare insight to what we may indeed have to do to survive out there.
The idea that human colonists could so genetically alter themselves to become what would be easily interpreted as aliens is a rare insight to what we may indeed have to do to survive out there.
jameseckman's review against another edition
4.0
A well paced SF novel about a horrible, unjustified war, a bizarre alien probe and lost colonies rediscovered by the Polity, the current human galactic organization. There's enough plot twists and surprises, but very digressions. The two societies and the victor's civil war that follows the end of the war are interesting, I like the biotech civilization as a concept. Near the end I couldn't put it down.
You can read this without having read any other books in the series.
You can read this without having read any other books in the series.
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