World Walkers, Neal Asher
World Walkers, Neal Asher
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World Walkers

Author: Neal Asher

Narrator: Peter Noble

Unabridged: 23 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/17/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

As a totalitarian Inspectorate tightens its grip, one man discovers the power to slip through the gaps and traverse alternate universes. World Walkers by Neal Asher is an exhilarating standalone novel set within the Owner Trilogy.

Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, Ottanger realizes the mutation allows him to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in all its glory and terror—and he understands that he can finally flee his timeline.

Then Ottanger meets the Fenris, an evolved human, visiting his Earth from the far future. He'd engineered the original world walking mutation, so those altered could escape the Committee's nightmarish regime. And Ottanger sees that that Committee will become unstoppable if not destroyed.

However, the Fenris has drawn yet another threat to Ottanger's Earth. With the power of its trillion linked minds, it craves world-walking biotech and will do anything to get it. As conflict looms at home, and war threatens the multiverse—the Fenris, Ottanger, and his companions must prepare for a galaxy-altering battle . . .

About Neal Asher

Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light-years away. His full-length novels are the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. The Spatterjay series: The Skinner The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Set in the same Polity are: Hilldiggers, PradorMoon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, and also the Transformation trilogy: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. In a dystopian future are: The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Soldier, the first book in the Rise of the Jain series, returns to the Polity.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zozo on September 19, 2024

I’m sorry to say this but Mr. Asher’s books are on a sharp decline for me. I’m a great fan but it just doesn’t work for me anymore. This one was too long with lots of repetitions (like people discovering their new powers and we go through the same experience over and over and over). And the morality......more

Goodreads review by Julie on February 01, 2025

What a snooze fest. It took me forever to read this book. I does have an interesting take on the multiverse, where instead of just the usual the author had the multiverse set up with nodal worlds where whatever happens on the nodal world spills over down into the worlds beneath it. The first charact......more

Goodreads review by Alun Thomas on October 11, 2024

Slightly laborious but with interesting concepts For regular Neal Asher readers this book will probably be a bit disappointing as it seems to lack the drive and clarity of narrative usually present in his books. The central concept of world walking and presentation of moral and ethical questions in......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on October 08, 2024

May the author be immortal and just keep writing May the author be immortal and just keep writing because Neal Asher just keeps delivery great stories and unique view points and characters!! May more world to discover is the “Walker” universe......more

Goodreads review by Corey on May 17, 2025

This book is clearly inspired by the author's political perspective and the story suffers as a result. It's as if the political metaphor came first and the story was slapped on top as a delivery vessel. Because of this, the story loses what little momentum it has in act 3. It's basically an anti-com......more