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The Soldier
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
Her mission is vital. Her failure is unthinkable.
A hidden corner of space is swarming with lethal alien technology, a danger to all sentient life. It's guarded by Orlandine, who must keep it contained at any cost - as it has the power to destroy entire civilizations. She schemes from her state-of-the-art weapons station, with only an alien intelligence to share her vigil. But she doesn't share everything with Dragon....
Orlandine is hatching a plan to obliterate this technology, removing its threat forever. For some will do anything to exploit this ancient weaponry, created by a long-dead race called the Jain. This includes activating a Jain supersoldier, which may breach even Orlandine's defences.
Meanwhile, humanity and the alien prador empire keep a careful watch over this sector of space, as neither can allow the other to claim its power. However, things are about to change. The Jain might not be as dead as they seemed - and interstellar war is just a heartbeat away.
The Soldier is the first novel in the Rise of the Jain series by best-selling science fiction author Neal Asher.
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- Paul
- 07-07-18
Great exciting story, great characters, well told
A great exciting story with varied and interesting characters. Love the hoopers and the drones. Setup nicely for the next book. Good narration. Recommended .
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- Bob
- 06-07-19
Big hard scifi set in Polity universe
Peter Noble has an excellent reading voice. He brings out the characters of human, Prador, AI, psychopath assassin drones and ancient alien species. He is easy to listen to with clear speach.
The story itself is typical Asher. Big, big science. Huge spaceships, vast solar building projects and exotic weapons. Asher's skill is to weave in human scale characters. The listener is never detached from the little people. Small story arcs intersperse with great space battles.
As ever Asher gives us another piece of the galactic jigsaw that explains how the current state of the universe comes to be.
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- GSV3MiaC
- 01-08-21
The start of something, incomplete. Not his best.
This is incomplete .. an interesting snippet, but probably only 1/2 or 1/3rd of a complete tale, and that ignores the backstory elements all the way back to the original 'Gridlinked', which IMO is superior in every way. The whole Asherverse is turning into a space opera with no end in sight,and the lurid prose becomes ever more EE Doc Smith-like, with ever more deadly particle beams coruscating wildly against ever more impenetrable shields (sorry 'hard fields').
The reading is pretty good although there were a couple of occasions where the timing (breaks between clauses) was wrong, or a wrong word was read (but without the printed text it is always possible that the written work was already wrong). I shall not be holding my breath for the next thrilling installment.
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- Jamie
- 29-05-18
Answers some questions from previous books
If you’ve enjoyed previous Neal Asher books, you’ll enjoy this one :-)
Expands the story of the Jain, where they came from, what caused the Jain nodes, and what happened to the Jain themselves ... looking forward to more in the series.
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- Sharon Barron
- 25-07-18
Complex, gripping and exciting
Asher tells a good story and "The soldier" doesn't disappoint in this respect. It's filled with great characters to which you can attach your emotions as they whirl and dance through a story of immense complexity. Yet despite it's arcane nature, not a moment of this audiobook leaves me feeling unsatisfied.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-11-18
Great book. Love the Universe
This was my fourth book in the Polity Universe and the new story started by Neil is amazing and I cant wait for the next part.
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- mr
- 17-12-21
Seemed a bit silly
It's pretty pulpy. The premise of the whole thing is pretty odd and the characters are unidimensional. Gave up on it.
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- I. Walker
- 05-08-19
The endless Clash of Titans
I normally really enjoy the scale and the stories by Neal Asher but this left me cold. If you love relentless battles between ageless and oddly named machine entities where matter or energy requirements mean nothing and the human scale is irrelevant then this is for you. Personally I was worn out and gave up before the end, this the first Asher book I’ve bounced off and been bludgeoned into submission by. There are only so many tendrils, pseudopods and variously coloured particle beams peeling away layers of armour but making no difference at all that I can withstand!
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-06-18
Neal Asher again superb
another superb glimpse into the polarity, masterly crafted, descriptive and exciting, awaiting more as ever
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- Adam Frith
- 13-07-18
great but....
love Neil Asher and always enjoy his books but not keen on this narrator. I don't think he expresses the humour in the books very well and his voices for a lot of the characters leave a lot to be desired in my opinion
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