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The Departure is the first gripping book in Neal Asher's near-future, science fiction Owner series.
The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources, and they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilized. So corruption is rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanized overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry, taking carnage to a new level.
This is the world Alan Saul wakes to, travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn’t know, but he remembers pain and his tormentor’s face. He also has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their regime. Once he’s discovered who he was, and killed his interrogator . . .
© 2017 Macmillan Digital Audio (Ljudbok): 9781509865086
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 oktober 2017
3.9
1 av 3
Fantasy & SciFi
The Departure is the first gripping book in Neal Asher's near-future, science fiction Owner series.
The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources, and they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilized. So corruption is rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanized overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry, taking carnage to a new level.
This is the world Alan Saul wakes to, travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn’t know, but he remembers pain and his tormentor’s face. He also has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their regime. Once he’s discovered who he was, and killed his interrogator . . .
© 2017 Macmillan Digital Audio (Ljudbok): 9781509865086
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 oktober 2017
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Tomas
19 feb. 2023
Tyckte början var lite förvirrande men boken blev mycket bättre efterhand. Lite skrämmande skildring med tanke på att det är skrivet 2011 och att det som tas upp i boken är paralleller till det som sedan har hänt med maktcentralisering, ökad övervakning och liknande. En SciFi-version av 1984 som är lite ”för” nära verkligheten.
Rule
17 juli 2021
Superb audiobook i loved it
Rafael
15 juni 2023
Dropped after 2 hours listening. Protagonist is overpowered and has nothing to relate with, no hero’s struggle
John
21 maj 2023
A non stop repetion of the lines "the government is evil" & "there is no food". And an unfeeling protagonist who just stand by and look at atrocities. It gives you the feeling of a child showing drawings and describing each blob
Mr
15 juli 2020
Underbar dystopisk sci-fi!
Henrik
30 juli 2023
Det tar 30min in i boken innan man börjar få grepp om den. Sedan kan man inte släppa taget om denna trilogi.
Johan
2 okt. 2020
Fantastic read!
Karl
21 juni 2020
Riktigt bra! Annorlunda vinkel på saker!
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