Dark Diamond

Captain Blite owns a death-defying device that’s coveted by powerful factions across space and time. Join the adventure in the first instalment of this thrilling new trilogy from sci-fi’s most explosive author, Neal Asher.

Balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness

Magnificently awesome . . . Asher turns it up to eleven

Asher rocks with XXX adrenaline while delivering a vivid future

Nonstop action , and unimaginable stakes

Gleeful but superbly controlled action-adventure

A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence , evocative world-building and typically grotesque monsters

Without a doubt the most entertaining science fiction author writing today

Asher’s work continues to combine the best of advanced cybertech and military SF

Asher is a modern master of sci-fi

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: Prador Moon , Hilldiggers , Shadow of the Scorpion , The Technician , Jack Four , Weaponized , and War Bodies . His Transformation trilogy comprises Dark Intelligence , War Factory and Infinity Engine . The Departure , Zero Point and Jupiter War are set in a dystopian future and connect to the World Walkers standalone, while Cowl transports us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is made up of The Soldier , The Warship and The Human . Dark Diamond is the first novel in the Time’s Shadow trilogy, also part of the Polity universe.