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Zero Point

The Owner, Book 2

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Zero Point

By: Neal Asher
Narrated by: John Mawson, Steve West
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Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, comes the ruthless Serene Galahad. She must act while the last vestiges of Committee infrastructure remain intact and she has the means to ensure command is hers.

On Mars, Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base, while the Argus Space Station hurls towards the red planet. And she knows whomever, or whatever, trashed Earth is still aboard. Var must save the base, while also dealing with the first signs of rebellion. And aboard Argus Station, Alan Saul’s mind has expanded into the local computer network. In the process, he uncovers the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development, the possibility of eternal life, and a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight. But Earth’s agents are closer than Saul thinks, and the killing will soon begin.

©2013 Neal Asher (P)2013 Audible Inc. Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Mars Robotics Solar System

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After defeating the Committee and destroying its ability to further terrorize Earth and any other planet, Alan Saul departs for Mars to investigate the possibility that whatever attacked Earth is still lurking on the Argus Space Station. High-ranking Committee member Serene Galahad steps forward to take power, leaving a swathe of deaths in her wake, and pursues Saul to reclaim the Earth's genestores. Narrators Jim Mawson and Steve West infuse their performance with vitality, seamlessly transitioning between their voices without affecting their impeccable pace. Their energetic rendition of the story's twists and turns will jolt listeners and leave them stunned.
Riveting Action • Unexpected Twists • Professional Performances • Outstanding Narration • Creative Science Fiction
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Great reader with terrific ability to switch voices. Everything is thrilling and stimulating. Sometimes though I had to reply sections due to confusion.

Intense and complex

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Much more enjoyable than the first book in the series. The writing is more smoothed in this one and rapidly catching up to the quality of the story.

Much improved

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If you could sum up Zero Point in three words, what would they be?

Exciting, creative sci fi

What did you like best about this story?

I felt immersed in a gritty, scary future with real future tech innovation.

What about John Mawson and Steve West ’s performance did you like?

I got lost in the story and did not think about the narration, except to appreciate how professional their performances are.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Heart stopping thrill ride to survive the long reach of Earth's tyrannical leader

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Wow! Asher is among the most complicated, mature and creative science fiction authors out there today.

The best scifi I've read in some time.

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This his was such a riveting story. The narrator does a fantastic job with the different voices and the way the story switches between different characters, it really left me guessing what would happen next.

Edge of Your Seat Story

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Neal Asher is easily becoming one of my favorite authors. Zero point is an amazing continuation to book one of The Owners Trilogy, just when I thought he couldn't do any better, Asher outdoes himself again. Well written and full of action from beginning to end. Well narrated by West and Mawson. Worth it.

Great science fiction saga

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This entire series of books is incredible. Wow -what an adventure. A dynasty of progressive outcomes are related and exposed as the eugenics programs that the are.

Truely outstanding Sci-Fi

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just a bit slow in the reading takes a while to get to the point 👉 👈 but a great listen

reader

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I’m impressed at how all these stories interact! Has made for a very interesting future story line. Thanks Neal Asher!
Narrative is very pro!

S Kaye

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Impressively, Neal Asher has managed to up both the quantity as well as quality of the violence in this second installment to his near-future dystopian ‘Owner’ trilogy. Like a hydra, the ruthless ‘Committee’ of Earth’s rulers, quickly sprouts new leadership in the wake of anti-hero Alan Saul’s one-man revolution in ’The Departure’. Chief among these is Serene Galahad, whose Committee bloodletting efficiently secures her role as supreme ruler of Earth. For a genocidal tyrant, this character is surprisingly understandable in Asher’s hands. His first person segments taken from her POV connect the dots of her atrocities believably, while illustrating the progression of her stomach for violence. In order to level the playing field and restore dramatic parity, Asher contrives to incapacitate and diminish Saul’s abilities, which also allows some of his satellite characters to step out from his shadow a bit. Three or four other narratives alternate with these, and all of them overflow with yet more gruesome death. Delightfully, adolescent wish fulfillment comes via some new techno-tricks Saul has learned, and almost everyone gets their comeuppance, although enough loose threads remain to provide ample material for a third installment.

The meat grinder continues

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good read
kept me up & alert the whole way... important whilst driving . saul is an excellent protagonist, who actually is absent for most of this book

enjoyed

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