Description
Orbus by Neal Asher is the third and final book in the Spatterjay trilogy, set within the author’s expansive Polity universe. This fast-paced science fiction novel combines interstellar warfare, alien civilisations, artificial intelligence and ancient threats on a vast cosmic scale.
Old Captain Orbus is fleeing a violent and sadistic past aboard an ageing cargo ship, unaware that the lethal war drone Sniper is hiding aboard. Meanwhile, his old enemy Vrell has seized control of a Prador dreadnought and is determined to take revenge on those who tried to kill him. Their paths converge in the Graveyard, a dangerous region between the Polity and the Prador Kingdom filled with the remains of ancient wars and genocides.
As the cold war between powerful forces threatens to erupt, the terrifying Prador King closes in and ancient secrets begin to surface. Meanwhile, something that has annihilated entire civilisations is stirring after five million years of dormancy.
A gripping space opera and military science fiction novel for readers who enjoy alien worlds, futuristic technology, artificial intelligence, interplanetary conflict and enormous cosmic threats.
