Shadow of the Scorpion
Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · May 1, 2008
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- Who it’s for
- A dark military science-fiction read where wartime ruins and human betrayals unsettle the usual enemy lines.
- Themes
- Postwar violence, Vengeance, Buried memories and past losses
- Genres
- Military Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Alien Contact
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Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to help restore and maintain order on worlds devastated by the war.
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There he discovers that though the Prador remain as murderous as ever, they are not anywhere near as treacherous or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like. Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, Cormac will discover in himself a cold capacity for violence and learn some horrible truths about his own past while trying to stay alive on his course of vengeance.
War’s Aftermath
A dark military science-fiction read where wartime ruins and human betrayals unsettle the usual enemy lines.
Come here for
- Alien conflict with moral unease close to home
- A vengeance-driven story shadowed by buried memories
Expect
- A serious, violent edge
- Space opera shaped by the costs of war
Where it sits
| Military Sci-Fi | 79% |
|---|---|
| Space Opera | 76% |
| Alien Contact | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Military Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Neal Asher
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- May 1, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Postwar violence · Vengeance · Buried memories and past losses
- Reading lane
- Hard Sci-Fi