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Prador Moon

A Novel of the Polity, Book 1

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Prador Moon

By: Neal Asher
Narrated by: David Marantz
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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.

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.

©2006 Neal Asher (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

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Prador Moon, narrated in coolly tense tones by David Marantz, is a violent futuristic science-fiction space story about monstrous, Earth-invading aliens who created a new Earth society. This was accomplished by killing, eating, and destroying whatever humans chose to resist their plans for world domination.

However, human beings can be a resourceful bunch and those that are left will not give in to a new life under Polity rule quietly. In other words, there shall be blood.

Listeners who like space wars and are able to easily suspend belief might appreciate this adventure tale.
Engaging Space Opera • Clever Surprise • Clear Enunciation • Relatable Heroes • Satisfying Conclusion • Epic Scale

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the narrator constantly pronounces words incorrectly, its irritating and distracting but possible to get past.

good book poor narration.

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Starts out with a warm welcome for our crabby friends and devolves quite nicely from there.

must love Prador

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Neal Asher's Prador Moon describes the initial contact and subsequent 'war' when the Polity, the Earth originated societal / governmental entity that is mostly AI with a liberal sprinkling of humans meets an intelligent alien race, the Prador. With first contact, the Prador pull no punches and initiate the war to obtain Polity technology. Two augmented humans play a central role in the Polity's rapid pivot to a war posture, all while battling an internal separatist movement that believes the Prador offer them the opportunity to shuck off their AI overlords.

While Asher's main focus is on human augmentation, he spend less time with the AI entities themselves. The alien race, the Prador, is a bit disappointing as they are basically anthropomorphized crabs with a social order designed around cage matches and the boss from hell. Along with their total lack of any morality concept and sadistic streak, it's hard to envision how they've managed to ever reach the stars.

The narration is reasonable with moderate character distinction. Pacing is fine for this relatively short offering.

Polity / Prador in a 'pp' contest

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Is as standalone book I did not understand the ending at all. sorry I just like clear cut endings

Strange ending

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It was hard for me to get into the crab monsters. The story has a good face and it is an interesting read. Just not super my cup of tea.

was pretty good.

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