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    The Departure
    The Departure
    The Departure
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    The Departure

    By Neal Asher

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    Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human being need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online . . . This is the world Alan Saul wakes to in his crate on the conveyor to the Calais incinerator. How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the face of his interrogator. Informed by Janus, through the hardware implanted in his skull, about the world as it is now Saul is determined to destroy it, just as soon as he has found out who he was, and killed his interrogator . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781597804486
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    Neal Asher

    Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four and Weaponized. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is comprised of The Soldier, The Warship and The Human, and is also set in the Polity universe.

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    • 2/5
      Honestly, this is like a 1.5 star review. Characters feel millimeters thin and the government is so over the top evil while also being laughably incompetent, and the protagonist is an unstoppable superman with no room for self-doubt. His companion on his journey is a brilliant scientist who's primary role seems to marvel at him and serve as an external conscience. Many of their conversations seem to revolve around him explaining to her that her her concerns are irrational given the realities of the situation, which has a whole other connotation that I'm equally unhappy with.

      On the whole, it's a simplistic plot driven novel with delusions of ethical introspection.

      This series came so highly recommended to me that I started the second book as well to see if things get better, but I abandoned it within the first few chapters.
    • 5/5
      I read this in two nights, both of them nights when I should have been asleep long before I actually forced myself to put down the book. The plot of this novel flies along, with plenty of action and an interesting protagonist. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series..
    • 4/5
      first of a recent trilogy with a non-Polity setting, very dystopic in outlook, and occasionally reading like a tract. still, an interesting look at a near-future world in which a world government bureaucracy obsessed with the single goal of control uses fear as a weapon, and uses up all Earth's resources maintaining that goal, at which point it concludes all those outside its own inner circle are expendable. Asher goes over the top in describing bureaucratic politics and the elitist perspective, and also in crafting his one-man solution. but it's important to note that his starting point is clearly the world of today, so his reductio is not entirely ad absurdum. also, the point of view of a human in the process of becoming a cyborg, trying in a somewhat desultory way to retain the humanity he's losing, is kind of fascinating. but as his own power increases exponentially, it's intriguing to imagine what he will himself become as he heads into space with the books that follow (and the word he eventually chooses here to describe his place in the hierarchy is more than a bit chilling).
    • 4/5
      Certainly a terrific page turner, since I took just two days to get thru about 500 pages.
      I'm hoping the next in the series will flesh out the characters a bit more than the monochromatic morality that was understandingly used in this first establishing book.
    • 4/5
      This set on an Earth of the future. Humanity has reached an overwhelming mass, and there is a totalitarian world government in place that indiscriminately kills its population as it sees fit. Each member of the population has a ID chip fitted, and they use technologies like reader guns, that shoot to kill if the wrong person in in the wrong area. A lot of the other tech is imaginative, from the way that people interact with the network, and the computer hardware that is fitted within the cranium and works from the DNA of the individual.

      The story is set on three stage, on earth, on mars and on a space station on an asteroid. The main character, Alan Saul, wakes on route to an incinerator, not knowing how he gets there, and decides to fight back in the way that he knows. He changes his ID, and using hie internal computer to hack into the jail manages to break from Jail, Hannah, who fits an super-computer in his brain. He starts to take on the state. The state is onto them and as they travel to the space port the action gets faster, and the body count climbs. In the meantime there is a revolution starting on the Mars base. There is the same despotic regime in place there and they are aiming to eliminate a large number of the base residents.

      Saul manages to get on the plane, and to the space station, and a huge battle takes place between Saul and others, with computer enhanced minds and sophisticated weaponry.

      I really enjoyed this, the tech is great and whilst it is not yet feasible, it comes through with a reasonable level of cohesion. Asher gets across the perils of a totalitarian government and the corruption associated with political elites, the up and coming problem of a huge populations and the control required over them. The main character is not quite as believable though as he seems to have a perfect solution or answer almost all of the time. The other characters are ok, Var in particular is strong, the other are piece players to fit the story. The is why only only four stars.
    • 5/5
      Some heavy advanced science and neuroscience in this boo, very reminiscent of Charles Stross science fiction. Hard in places to keep up bit a fantastic read.
    • 5/5
      A roller coaster of a read. I’m in awe of the imagination that went into this, although a bit pedantic from time to time. That’s the only thing keeping it from five stars ‘cause I couldn’t put it down regardless. I will definitely check out more of Asher’s work.
    • 4/5
      The Departure (The Owner: Book One)By Neal AsherPublisher: Night Shade BooksPublished In: San Francisco, CA, USADate: 2011 / 2013Pgs: 380Summary:Overpopulated and under the control of the tyrannical Committee, the Earth and her people are suffering as the resources of the once bountiful world are reallocated to support the bureaucracy at the disadvantage of the people. The Haves need more. The Have Nots, the ZAs, the Zero Assets needs are unimportant. For the few to live, the many must die. The Committee is all.Mars base was growing. Now the necessary supplies and support from Earth are being reallocated by the Committee back on Earth. The Mars Traveler program, the heavy lifter, ferrying supplies from Earth to Mars has been shut down. The big boosters being reprovisioned to be part of the ARGUS network looking down on the ZA population of Earth, monitoring and ready to laser burn them from orbit. The political officer has his orders. A small enough contingent might survive until connection with Earth is reestablished...in 10...15...20 years. To do this, Mars may run redder. The Committee is all.Genre:fiction, space, politics, big brother, revolutionWhy this book:The political commentary appealed to me in the current American political climate. This could be seen as an ultimate expression of the 1%, their system, and those hanging onto the system against everybody else.This Story is About:control, revolution, cyberpunkism, big brother, resource depletionFavorite Character:Alan Saul. He is a cold blooded cyborg of a man who has been tortured and pushed beyond the human condition. He’s going to have his revenge. The system that screwed him over is going to pay.Least Favorite Character: The Committee in all its human guises. Hannah and her polyanna notions about the world that they live in under the Committee’s oppressive thumb. I dislike Hannah more than Smith and he’s the supervillain, most visible one of the Committee’s flunkies. Hannah is the person in the zombie apocalypse whose boyfriend has been bitten and instead of going with the rest of the group and surviving choses to stay with him when the others, rightly, decide to leave him behind...thus becoming zombie chow.Character I Most Identified With:Alan Saul. He’s lost. He’s pushing back against a world that has already tried to kill him once and given the opportunity is going to finish the job. Unless he kills it first.The Feel:It’s close. It’s oppressive. It’s dark. There’s no triumph of the human spirit here. This is a dark revelation on humanity’s inhumanity to humans.Favorite Scene:When Saul begins linking with the wider systems beyond his skull after he and Janus meld in his brain...or the hardware that his brain is wired into. Not sure which way this works. Though from Hannah’s inner monologue, the later may be more accurate than the former. I was hoping for a cyberspace kung fu showdown between Smith and Saul which didn’t materialize. Might have been too hokey in comparison with the tone and flavor of the balance of the story.Settings:Paris; Calais; London; Antares Base, Mars; the Argus satellitePacing:GoodPlot Holes/Out of Character:Leaving what amounts to a kryptonite IED in your vulnerable rear areas as you advance through a hostile environment because one of your team has misgivings about the fact that you are in a war, in a kill-or-be-killed scenario, is foolish and illogical. This amounts to an OOC since Saul has a massive amount of computing power residing in his head. Though, the wetware portions of his brain could be overriding the hardware portions. Meh.Last Page Sound:I don’t like it being a duology or trilogy or whatever. The story was damned good though.Author Assessment:I will be reading other stuff by Neal Asher.Editorial Assessment:Tightly edited.Disposition of Book:Irving Public Library, Irving, TXWhy isn’t there a screenplay?There should be.Casting call:I’d like to see Javier Bardem portray Director Smith. His voice would be perfect. And he can definitely do scary and commanding, just look at his performance in No Country For Old Men.The obvious for Alan Saul would be Keanu Reeves. But the story has too many cyberpunky elements in common with The Matrix and Johnny Mnemonic. I’d like to see Terrence Howard as Alan Saul.Vinnie Jones for Malden, the revolutionary leader.Gabriel Byrne as Chairman Messina, the leader of the CommitteeWould recommend to:genre fans, political junkies, those who fear 1984-style Big Brother.

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