Gridlinked
Agent Cormac, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Ric Jerrom
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By:
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Neal Asher
About this listen
In outer space you can never feel sure that your adversary is altogether human.
The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow.
Despite the sub-zero temperature of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: they are two 'dracomen', alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity calling itself 'Dragon', which is a huge creature consisting of four conjoined spheres of flesh each a kilometre in diameter. Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac needs to skip very nimbly indeed to rescue the Samarkand project and protect his own life.
Gridlinked is the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series.
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- Anonymous Coward
- 15-03-18
The book made me a huge Asher fan
Read well, with a great story with a huge backstory. Well worth paying for. Thoroughly recommended to hard sci-fi fans.
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- The Bloody Nine
- 17-02-22
Excellent audio version.
A fabulous audio version of a terrific series. Does the printed version justice. listened to at 1.2 as my only quibble is a slightly slow narration style
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-11-17
Still as good as the 1st time around
audio re-read, still love the story as much as the 1st time around, looking foreward to re-reading the rest of the series', only downside is that the Reader can be a little quiet at times, otherwise good redition of the story :)
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- David Thurlow
- 31-01-18
Pretty good Sci fi
Quite enjoyed the book, though sometimes it was hard to follow when a chapter contained more than a single narrative. Pretty good detail of the universe. Was fairly well read though a lot of it, with the English dialect made me feel like part of it was midsummer murders in space. The ending assumed a lot to of Reading between the lines and I felt it was better to read the alternative ending on the author's website. Didn't find myself investing a lot into the characters or the world in the same way I do with the Expanse series.
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- Petteri
- 22-05-18
excellent scifi
the book contains less technobabble and militaria than one would expect. its great to listen to.
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- Colin
- 10-10-20
Ends with a mystery
So I have to listen to the next one now. This book is around 20 years old now so I must be entering the realms of classic science fiction.
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- Bruce Danby
- 02-08-22
Painful narration.
The story is great. General spoken word is fine. The narration of the dialogue story elements hurt my head. The variety of accents was good. But it was so unnatural in its pacing and tone.
I’m torn if I can put myself through the next volume.
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- David A.
- 02-12-24
Worth it in the end
The narration of this audiobook seems totally inappropriate to the genre. It's not that he's a bad narrator, but he has a style that grated on me for about the first hour or two. as the story picked up pace, I found myself noticing the quirky narration less and less, and was hooked.
Trouble is, I'm not sure I can face book 2 just yet. I want to know what happens, but I fear that the same thing will happen again. On balance, I think I'll give it a go.
I listened to this in 2024. At the time it is 23 years old, but it is a mark of good science fiction that it did not seem particularly dated, mostly.
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- Peter
- 27-11-17
The beginning of a great sci-fi series
I very much enjoyed this book. It has an interesting story, good narration and very much reminds me of the culture series. I will be listing to more of these.
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- MR N FURZE
- 27-11-17
Excellent!
Wonderful adventure and great ideas as usual. Asher's books are brimming with detail so much so that I like to listen to them several times to soak it all up. Great performance by Ric Jerrom too.
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