Series
Ian Cormac
Neal Asher · 6 novels · 2001–2008
Neal Asher's Ian Cormac novels (Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, Line War, plus the earlier-set prequel Shadow of the Scorpion) follow Ian Cormac, an agent of Earth Central Security in Asher's Polity universe. Gridlinked opens with Cormac investigating a destroyed matter-transmitter on a remote colony while wrestling with the personality erosion caused by long-term neural linkage to the Polity's AI network; the following novels escalate into interstellar conflict with the alien Prador. Together they form the core action sequence of Asher's wider Polity series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Ian Cormac at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s6
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Gridlinkeddarkest · calmest
- Shadow of the Scorpionbrightest
- Brass Manmost intense