Polity Agent by Neal Asher

Author:Neal Asher [Asher, Neal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, General, Adventure, Life on other planets
ISBN: 9780330441520
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2007-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

(audience interruption)

Pardon

(audience response)

I will state again that there is no such thing as an APW! What you are referring to is a proton weapon—highly destructive and tending to spread isotope poisoning wherever used. The APW, the antiphoton weapon, the dark-light gun, is a fucking fictional creation!

(moderator query)

Yes, thank you. I’m fine.

- From her lecture ‘Modern Warfare’ by EBS Heinlein

The sphere composed of two-foot-long metal ants rested in the centre of the Feynman Lounge, individual ants occasionally detaching to be off about their assigned tasks. This new conceit of Polity AIs, in choosing to locate themselves in increasingly bizarre body shapes, elicited the Legate’s contempt, but not sufficiently for it to consider outright confrontation. In retrospect it was a good thing it had not tried taking information from the two women investigating the explosion site. The two ant drones accompanying them—which the Legate had initially discounted—were dangerous, being part of this forensic AI.

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