false 2247423 4 Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember. Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to help restore and maintain order on worlds devastated by the war. There he discovers that though the Prador remain as murderous as ever, they are not anywhere near as treacherous or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like. Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, Cormac will discover in himself a cold capacity for violence and learn some horrible truths about his own past while trying to stay alive on his course of vengeance. 6588550 23 7 2008 Shadow of the Scorpion: A Novel of the Polity total:48|5:9|4:25|3:10|2:4|1:0| 48 183 94 8 5 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 16:43:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 15:33:19 -0700 2009
All are set in some way in the Polity Universe where humans have crossed the universe with computerised help. The Polity is run by ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:02:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:02:28 -0800 2009 Critics read Shadow of the Scorpion in several different ways. The book can be read as a political commentary on the impacts of war, especially counterinsurgency campaigns, on an individual's memory and personality. Or it can be read as an action-packed, well-plotted story with larger-than-life hero...

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