The Departure

Neal L. Asher

Original title: The departure

earliest edition we have, 2011 Night Shade Books, 2013

the owner — book 1

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 control: 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 hum...

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The Departure edition · 2020 · Pan Macmillan · 512 pages · 9781509868544
The Departure edition · 2013 · Night Shade Books · 9781597804479
The Departure edition · 2013 · Start Publishing LLC · 9781597804486
The Departure paperback · 2011 · MacMillan Hardback Omes · 352 pages · 9780230746725
The Departure paperback · 2011 · Tor · 9780330457613
The departure edition · 2011 · Tor · 497 pages · 9780230708730

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