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dsrtao_Death's Head: Maximum Offense_, David Gunn
_Line of Polity_, Neal Asher
_Steal Across the Sky_, Nancy Kress
Gunn wrote a sequel to his massively bloody far-future MilSF explosion in a charnel house, _Death's Head_. In case potential readers don't get that it's a sequel, the titling scheme makes it obvious. This level of bluntness is standard throughout both books... In this one, we learn that theCulture is too wussy to do its own dirty work, and so our protagonist is loaned over to them to kill, violate, spindle, fold and mutilate many many people and at least one Big SemiDumb Object.
_Line of Polity_, on the other hand, is an older Asher novel in which theCulturePolity has to lay down the smack upon a horrible hegemonizing invader, while simultaneously being wary about the threat potentially posed by a kilometer-wide globe of sapient flesh that calls itself Dragon. Many people are killed in the ensuing war, mostly on camera, and there are gabbleducks.
Kress likes to write novels where it turns out the story you think you are reading is only the first part of the book. Then much, much more happens. In this case, there are aliens with FTL drives who come, build a base on the moon, connect to the Internet, and say they want to apologize for what they did to us 10,000 years ago. Then it gets weird, in a very intriguing but disturbing way.
_Line of Polity_, Neal Asher
_Steal Across the Sky_, Nancy Kress
Gunn wrote a sequel to his massively bloody far-future MilSF explosion in a charnel house, _Death's Head_. In case potential readers don't get that it's a sequel, the titling scheme makes it obvious. This level of bluntness is standard throughout both books... In this one, we learn that the
_Line of Polity_, on the other hand, is an older Asher novel in which the
Kress likes to write novels where it turns out the story you think you are reading is only the first part of the book. Then much, much more happens. In this case, there are aliens with FTL drives who come, build a base on the moon, connect to the Internet, and say they want to apologize for what they did to us 10,000 years ago. Then it gets weird, in a very intriguing but disturbing way.
