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Runcible Tales

Name: Runcible Tales
ISBN: 9781902628240

Neal Asher · 1999collection

Genre
- science fiction
- space opera
Theme
- aliens
- artificial intelligence
Place
- space
- other star systems
Time
- far future
Tone
- adventurous
Audience
- adult

Also present

Themespace exploration
Tonedark
Formshort story cycle

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Five early short stories mark out the first territory of Neal Asher's Polity universe, introducing the teleporting runcible gates, the agent Ian Cormac, and the ancient, unknowable entity called Dragon well before they anchored his novels. Rougher and looser than his later work, the collection reads like a sketchbook for the future history Asher would spend decades building.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources

1Always with Youshort story
2Blue Holesshort story
3Dragon in the Flowershort story
4The Gire and the Bibratshort story
5Walking John & Birdshort story

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