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Prador Moon by Neal Asher

Prador Moon

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Neal Asher

Night Shade Books · Ebook · July 22, 2013

Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style.

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Who it’s for
A war-footing space opera follows the Polity from early defeats toward a possible first victory.
Genres
Space Opera, Military Sci-Fi, Alien Contact
Published
Night Shade Books, July 22, 2013

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About this book

Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun.

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Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes. For the first time in the US in eBook format.

First Contact, Under Fire

A war-footing space opera follows the Polity from early defeats toward a possible first victory.

Come here for

  • First contact with an aggressive alien force
  • Space opera shaped by military reversals

Expect

  • Large-scale conflict across worlds and space stations
  • Two unlikely heroes’ perspectives

Where it sits

Alien Contact93%
Military Sci-Fi50%
Space Opera43%

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
July 22, 2013
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Hard Sci-Fi