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A review by macindog
The Technician by Neal Asher
5.0
Set 20 years after the Polity liberated the world of Masada from Theocracy rule, this tale follows Jeremiah Tombs, an ex-Theocracy Proctor who survived a Hooder attack. Not just any Hooder either, possibly the oldest and most esoteric Hooder on the Planet and they call it The Technician.
Trouble is...no one survives a Hooder attack, their victims are skinned and dismantled before being eaten, but Tombs did and the AIs are sure The Technician put something into his head, something related to a lost race called the Atheter.
So Tombs is rebuilt and allowed to follow whatever destiny has in store for him. The AIs have also assigned him some serious "protection" as there are still those out there with long memories and boiling hatred of the Theocracy and anyone identified with with it.
This is a stunningly good story. If you've been following Asher's Masada stories, it brings a lot of the earlier players and Masadan wildlife together - the war drone Amistad, the black AI Penny Royal, ex-rebel commander Lief Grant, Dragon, the Gabbleducks and of course, the Hooders.
Trouble is...no one survives a Hooder attack, their victims are skinned and dismantled before being eaten, but Tombs did and the AIs are sure The Technician put something into his head, something related to a lost race called the Atheter.
So Tombs is rebuilt and allowed to follow whatever destiny has in store for him. The AIs have also assigned him some serious "protection" as there are still those out there with long memories and boiling hatred of the Theocracy and anyone identified with with it.
This is a stunningly good story. If you've been following Asher's Masada stories, it brings a lot of the earlier players and Masadan wildlife together - the war drone Amistad, the black AI Penny Royal, ex-rebel commander Lief Grant, Dragon, the Gabbleducks and of course, the Hooders.