The Complete Owner Trilogy

Owner Trilogy #1-3

by Neal Asher

The Complete Owner Trilogy by Neal Asher, including The Departure, Zero Point, and Jupiter War. The Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human being need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online . . . This is the world Alan Saul wakes to in his crate on the conveyor to the Calais incinerator. How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the face of his interrogator. Informed by Janus, through the hardware implanted in his skull, about the world as it is now Saul is determined to destroy it, just as soon as he has found out who he was, and killed his interrogator . . . Zero 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. Jupiter Alan Saul is now part-human and part-machine, and our solar system isn't big enough to hold him. He craves the stars, but can't leave yet. His sister Var is trapped on Mars, on the wrong side of a rebellion, and Saul's human side won't let her die. He must leave Argus Station to stage a dangerous rescue -- but mutiny is brewing onboard, as Saul's robots make his crew feel increasingly redundant. Serene Galahad will do anything to prevent Saul's escape. Earth’s ruthless dictator hides her crimes from a cowed populace as she readies new warships for pursuit. She aims to crush her enemy in a terrifying display of interstellar violence. Meanwhile, The Scourge limps back to earth, its crew slaughtered, its mission to annihilate Saul a disaster. There are survivors, but while one seeks Galahad's death, Clay Ruger will negotiate for his life. Events build to a climax as Ruger holds humanity’s greatest prize -- seeds to rebuild a dying Earth. This stolen gene-bank data will come at a price, but what will Galahad pay for humanity’s future?

Genres: Science Fiction, Ebooks

1205 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 6, 2014

About the author

I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. Now I write science fiction books, and am slowly getting over the feeling that someone is going to find me out, and can call myself a writer without wincing and ducking my head. As professions go, I prefer this one: I don’t have to clock-in, change my clothes after work, nor scrub sensitive parts of my body with detergent. I think I’ll hang around.

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Reviews

[Mark Rivera · Rating 1 out of 5]

Neal Asher is an absolute POS who spreads bigotry on his socials. He needs to be boycotted.

[Peter Czeti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow - it took me only a month to plow through this Trilogy. With all the chaos in Neal's life, it is a small wonder that he got this done. I really thought he was going to go off the Grid - much like one might as a character in this book. By far and away these are my favorite Asher books. I would often finish work and still be reading in bed until 1am in the morning struggling to put them down.

I thoroughly enjoyed Neal's quasi-Government/1984 dystopia. There was that balance of narrative and hard "factual" scifi with a good blend of near future that made it almost plausible as something that might happen in the near future. I finished the last book pained my the fact that this was only a "trilogy". I still hope for another book to progress the story. But, hey - I'll have to settle for the next installment of the Transformation series. Poor me.

[Oliver Eike · Rating 4 out of 5]

A most enjoyable trilogy if you have any dystopian or Sci-fi leanings.

Earth has established a colony upon Mars, but at the same time struggling with a population number it simply can not sustain. A big brother'esque bureacracy is slowly choking the life out of the very soul of humanity, that is until steps are taken, which lead to other steps being taken in response to that.

The books unfold like a beautiful dance between a most intriguing cast of characters. Saul, the JAmes Bond at the start of the series, will transform and go from someone with even a dab of rebel in them can relate to. To become a character that is simply The Owner.

Give this series a go, i enjoyed it richly. I suspect you will as well.

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating series that takes place long before events in the Polity Universe. As usual the chapter intros were small bits of backstory and very helpful throughout my reading and several large parts of the trilogy are excellent background information for the Polity universe. As the series develop, the main character becomes hard to empathize with but I never lost connection with him and was entertained by his (and other characters)journey.

[Reed Shankwiler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Positively unmatched in speculative military science fiction. Characters

Age-old questions reviewed from the perspective of a rapidly evolving technology base. The discussions of autocracy are enhanced
on the canvas of misery.