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I normally love Neal Asher's polity books. This one, not so much. Why? It reminds me of James Patterson type book with lots and lots (and lots) of detail on the technology. All very well but we know most of this tech from his earlier books. There is very little human interest here. Jack Four wakes up as a clone, learns stuff he should not know, escapes to a savage planet (shades of Robinson Crusoe), then faces one beast after another (all drawn from the earlier polity books), gets back to a space station, fights some more with lots of weapons. The level of detail is mind-numbing. I am a hardcore SF fan, and a huge geek over exotic tech, but I would find myself skipping page after page of description of the travails of Jack. The end was slightly exciting but on the whole, reminded me more a technical manual than a novel. Still, because it is Neal Asher, this was 3 stars for me.