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Country
  
United Kingdom

Series
  
Ian Cormac

Originally published
  
2008

Publisher
  
Tor Books


Cover artist
  
Steve Rawlings

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2008

Author
  
Neal Asher

OCLC
  
298597496

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Genres
  
Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Neal Asher books, Polity Universe books, Science Fiction books

Shadow of the Scorpion is a novel by Neal Asher, published by the Macmillan Publishers imprint Tor Books in 2008. The novel introduces Ian Cormac and is therefore a prequel. The novel skips between Cormac's first mission for the ECS (Earth Central Security) and his upbringing as a child.

Contents

Planets

  • Earth
  • Hagren, the setting of the majority of the book
  • Patience, the setting of the conclusion of the book
  • Spaceships

  • Pearl - AI controlled Polity transport.
  • The Sadist - An AI controlled attack ship.
  • Characters

  • Amistad
  • Yallow
  • Ian Cormac
  • Carl
  • Spencer
  • Dax Cormac (Ian's older brother)
  • Hannah Cormac (Dax and Ian's mother)
  • Gorman
  • Travis
  • Crean
  • References

    Shadow of the Scorpion Wikipedia