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Gridlinked is Neal Asher's first novel. It contains elements of the technological inventiveness of hard science-fiction with a more contemporary political plotline. Neal Asher (b. ...
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Technology
- AI, machine intelligence responsible for planetary management
- runcible, an interstellar teleporter, comparable to the Ramsbotham Jump in Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky
- contra-terrene device or CTD, an anti-matter bomb
- AGC, antigravity carrier anti-gravity vehicle
- Proton Gun
- Pulse-gun
- Golem Thirties sophisticated androids
- Sparkind
- Chainglass armour and cutting blades: "A glass formed of silicon chain molecules. Depending on heat treatments and various doping techniques, this glass has a range of properties covering just about every material that has preceded it. Chainglass blades can be as hard as diamond and maintain an edge sharper than that of freshly sheared flint, whilst having a tensile strength somewhere above that of chrome steel. Chainglass also lacks the brittleness of its namesake. The substance was the invention of Algin Tenkian, and it made him filthy rich." -Gridlinked: Asher, pg. 142.
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An interstellar teleporter is a hypothetical technology appearing in science fiction, typically in hard sci-fi, which moves people and/or other objects over interstellar distances instantaneously. ...
Ramsbotham jump is the interstellar teleporter in Robert A. Heinleins science fiction novel Tunnel in the Sky. ...
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Planets - Earth
- Cheyne III, home world of the Separtist movement.
- Minostra
- Samarkand II, waystation between more important worlds, 173 light years from Veridian. Colony destroyed after Runcible exploded.
- Veridian, 173 light years from Samarkand II, in the Mendax planetary system of the Chirat star cluster.
Spaceships
Characters - Horace Blegg, immortal Japanese mastermind said to have survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima
- Ian Cormac, the protagonist, a state terrorist working for the Earth Central AI or Prime Cause
- Arian Pelter, the chief villain, a Separatist/Terrorist
- Angelina Pelter, a Separatist, sister of the chief villain and the victim of a state sanctioned exta-judicial killing by Cormac
- John Stanton, a criminal underling of Pelter with a heart of gold
- Jarvellis, Stanton's pregnant love interest and spaceship pilot/smuggler
- The Maker
- The Dragon
- Mr. Crane, a tallish psychotic android controlled Pelter
- Aiden, Teutonic Golem Thirty android
- Cento, Mediterranean Golem Thirty android
- Corlackis, Pelter underling
- Dusache, Pelter underling
- Mennecken, Pelter underling
- Svent, Pelter underling
- Sylac
- Tull
- Veltz
- Geneve
- Carn, small monkeylike man
- Chaline
- Gant, soldier
- Thorn, soldier
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