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This is the third installment in the Ian Cormac series. I recommend reading Gridlinked and The Line of Polity first. That said:

We’re introduced to an all-new (to Asher’s readers) world....isolated from the Polity and the human race in general...and Dragon is waiting there, but to what end no one can fathom. There are new insights into both Dragon and an honorable attack ship AI named Jack Ketch (revealed in the second person) and it really makes for a more interesting...and pretty cool storyline.

Neal Ashers’ world-building skill is mind-boggling, and the (rarely intersecting) exploits and trials of Dragon, Polity agent Cormac, an old-school mounted Knight named Anderson and the titular Brass Man (Crane) is a rare example of pure reading pleasure.

Asher is my favorite type of author: The kind that can make me forget I’m reading a story.


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Brass Man Ian Cormac Book 3 Neal Asher 9780765317315 Books Reviews

Best book in the Agent Cormac series, meaning best for Asher period except for the Spatterjay books. Everything you love about Neal Asher's Polity books taken to their extreme. These are the only books I have ever reread except for the Hobbit/LOTR and the Discworld books.
Hey-ho its another rollercoaster ride through space and time. Space opera with elephants, a full chorus and a very fat singing lady at the end. True, don't start the series with this one because it will leave you baffled as a politician who is reminded of his election promises. However, if you have allready started on the series, this one is not to be missed. The only flaw with this book is the too fast switches in the storyline between the main characters. Sometimes it can leave the impression of watching five different - very good - shows on television with a six year old adhd son on steroids in controll of the remote. There is too little time to sit back, open a pack of crisps, maybe get a cold beer and then to enjoy the show. Flick, evil insane scientist, flick, knight on a mission, flick, something happening to someone, somewhere, flick, secret agent saving yet another world, flick, flick..
Mind you, its a lot of fun.
Fast, but fun.
Lots.
Continues to keep up the pace. I'm going to enjoy rereading it.
Neal Asher's BRASS MAN, the third novel in his Ian Cormac series and the fourth (I think) set in his Polity universe, is a distinct improvement over its predecessor, the overly-long and underly-stimulating THE LINE OF POLITY. Most of the events in BRASS MAN take place a year or two after the conclusion of LINE and a few more years after the conclusion of GRIDLINKED. Evil mad scientist Skellor, who had been thought dead, reappears, hijacks a spaceship, and decides for no particularly good reason to resurrect the psychotic metal-skinned android Mr. Crane, who had been destroyed at the end of GRIDLINKED. After bringing Mr. Crane under his control, Skellor uses him to help wreak havoc here, there, and everywhere. As Skellor's journey unfolds, we also learn through flashbacks about how Mr. Crane's crystalline mind was maliciously warped, how Mr. Crane has resisted his psychosis and his masters over the years, and how Mr. Crane might someday be able to heal himself. By the end of the book, we know more about Mr. Crane than we do about Ian Cormac, although that's not saying a lot.

Skellor's flight from Polity authorities eventually takes him and Mr. Crane to a colony world that lost contact with Earth hundreds of years in the past. We learn about this world primarily through the adventures of Rondure Knight Anderson and his not-entirely-trustworthy sidekick Tergal as they explore the desert wastes on their sand hog mounts. Anderson and Tergal are not exactly Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, but there are some echoes here of that storied duo. The final battles of BRASS MAN are fought on and around their world, and you can be sure that they play a role.

Two important narrative threads emerge in BRASS MAN and are bound to be followed in later novels. The first is that the alien Jain technology that gives Skellor his power is, as the alien called Dragon intimates in LINE, designed or evolved to destroy starfaring cultures. The existence of weapons designed to seek out and destroy technological cultures is also a major thread in Alistair Reynolds' REVELATION SPACE series. It will be interesting to find out where Jain technology really came from and how much destruction it has caused over the eons. Second, not all of the Artificial Intelligences that rule the Polity and run its "runcible" stations and spaceships actually like or want to have anything to do with humans. The AIs in BRASS MAN are more heterogeneous and have more personality than those the first two novels; they are beginning to more closely resemble the Minds of Iain Banks' Culture novels. Some of these AIs not only resent being wasted in the service of humans, they are also prepared to do what it takes to pursue their own interests, even if humans and other AIs get hurt in the process. I hope that Asher continues to think about AI psychology, sociology, and evolution.

What most pleased me about BRASS MAN was the sense that everything in novel needed to be there, something that I didn't feel when reading LINE. I was also pleased that although Skellor remains a comic-book villain, Asher gave us a more ambiguous baddy in Mr. Crane. Furthermore, I was pleased that Asher pushed the limits of his universe, digging deeper (but not deep enough, if you ask me) into the nature of the sentient aliens previously and currently living in and near human space, and looking more critically at the relationships among AIs and between AIs and humans.

On the minus side, although I didn't mind that Ian Cormac had only a very limited role in the novel, I was disturbed by the growing body of evidence that Cormac might be either more than human or other than human. I don't think that superpowers would make Cormac more interesting, and I don't want to hear down the road that Cormac and his mentor Horace Blegg are really Cylons. We'll see where Asher takes this. Also, although I don't mind Asher's fascination with alien fauna, in BRASS MAN as in LINE characters wind up spending way too much time fighting against clawed and armored and fanged adversaries. I hope the struggle of man against non-sentient monster occupies a less-central place in future Polity novels.

Bottom line I recommend BRASS MAN to anybody who has read the preceding novels. It is probably possible to read and enjoy BRASS MAN without having read the two prior novels, but it would not be as enjoyable as it otherwise would be.
Okay Mr. Asher you topped yourself and impress me some more please continue you have very interesting and unique way of story telling I have read thousands of books literally but this series is in the top five.
This is a great series. But be warned, Mr Asher likes blood and guts. There is complex action that is well described. The Brass Man himself is a great character. Very troubled. This book is fairly self contained, but you would be wise to read the first two, if you truly want to understand how the Brass Man fits the storyline.
Neal Asher's "Brass Man" (first published in 2005) is the 5th book in his "Polity" series and the 3rd in the "Agent Cormac" sub-series. Near the beginning, I was a bit upset that he was reviving two of the way-overpowered bad guys from the first two books of the sub-series. But, that choice actually worked well. It was especially nice that he could use that plot device to fill in some of the story gaps from those two books. If you've read and enjoyed the previous books in the series, you'll be very happy with this one same good writing, universe, characterizations, and pace. So, I'm happy to rate it at a Very Good 4 stars out of 5 (possibly 4-1/2 stars).
This is the third installment in the Ian Cormac series. I recommend reading Gridlinked and The Line of Polity first. That said

We’re introduced to an all-new (to Asher’s readers) world....isolated from the Polity and the human race in general...and Dragon is waiting there, but to what end no one can fathom. There are new insights into both Dragon and an honorable attack ship AI named Jack Ketch (revealed in the second person) and it really makes for a more interesting...and pretty cool storyline.

Neal Ashers’ world-building skill is mind-boggling, and the (rarely intersecting) exploits and trials of Dragon, Polity agent Cormac, an old-school mounted Knight named Anderson and the titular Brass Man (Crane) is a rare example of pure reading pleasure.

Asher is my favorite type of author The kind that can make me forget I’m reading a story.