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Score: 9.8/10  [1 review]
5 out of 5
ProdID: 8914 - Jack Four
Written by Neal Asher

Jack Four
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$35.00
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Proud to promote NZ productsCreated to die - determined to live... Jack Four - one of twenty human clones - has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien Prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack.

The Prador's king has been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into a monstrous creature, along with his children. They were infected by the virus during the last humans-Prador war, now lapsed into an uneasy truce. But the Prador are always looking for new weapons - and their experimentation program might give them the edge they seek.

Suzeal trades human slaves out of the Stratogaster Space Station. She thinks the rewards are worth the risks, but all that is about to change. The Station was once a zoo, containing monsters from across known space. All the monsters now dwell on the planet below, but they aren't as contained as they seem... and a vengeful clone may be the worst danger of all.

This high-octane adventure is set in the same world as Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity universe.

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cloning   neal asher   polity   prador   scifi   spatterjay virus   nzmade
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Review by: tucker (Karl)
Dated: 1st of September, 2021

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This Review: 9.8/10
Value for Money:
Score 9 out of 10
Level of Realism:
Score 10 out of 10
Rereadability:
Score 10 out of 10
Lose Track of Time:
Score 10 out of 10

I can not express, without going all gushy-fanboi, how much I love Neal Asher's works. Very few authors have managed to capture my attention the way he has and, unsurprisingly, those that have are pretty big names in the literary world. Neal's 'Polity Universe' is enriched with every tale, and while I love the 'bigger' stories that require a trilogy to tell properly, these 1-off titles are an invaluable part of filling in all the gaps that surround the 'big players' in his world.

The synopsis above does a pretty good job of giving the reader the rough outline of the story, but of course it's only the barest outline of a wonderfully intense and immersive tale. Jack Four is no John Doe, and his journey from cloned blank to hero of the story is as wild and varied as it is enthralling. How he reacts to the dawning realisation of his true nature and how he came to be where, and what, he is now is as captivating as it is detailled. Neal has the wonderful ability to write as though it is all real and he's watching it on some godlike screen, rather than inventing it. While that is the goal of any and all authors, Neal does it in a way only a few other have managed, IMHO.

While this is clearly a 1-shot story, by half way through the book I found myself unexpectedly feeling really saddened by that fact - I was so invested in the story of Jack's plight and his adventures on the road of self-realisation, that I really, really wanted this to be the first of many. And who knows, maybe we'll see Jack pop up again somewhere down the track. One can only hope.

Overall, while it feels a bit cliche to say, this is yet another fine addition to a universe I have fallen for in a big way, and wish dearly I could live in. My only slight niggle is that I really have no idea where in the greater timeline fo Neal's stories this fits... I know Neal occasionally posts a timeline on his Twitter account, but he's so prolific with his tales that it needs constant updating. Something he is often far too busy writing more amazing tales to get around to. But you know what... that's a small price to pay to get spirited away into a future I can only hope becomes a reality somewhere downstream.

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