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Neal Asher has done what few authors can bring themselves to do, and published the third and final book in the Transformation series, titled Infinity Engine. Picking up from the events of the second book, the AI Penny Royal is set on a collision course with the ever-growing Brockle, another, potentially more dangerous swarm-robot AI. Meanwhile, Thorvald is fighting for his life against technology gone rogue aboard the war factory.

Neal Asher is one of the more exceptional voices in science-fiction of our modern times, displaying his ability to write unique and stunning space operas in a very distinct style time and time again. The Transformation series is arguably one of his most celebrated works, and the second book, titled War Factory , has us following Thorvald Spear as he pursues a rogue AI across hostile galaxies, while his enemies are doing the same, setting the stage for a supermassive firestorm.

The potential pitfalls that come with rapidly-evolving technologies have become rather-well known to us, mainly because it is a subject that has been explored abundantly in the realm of fiction... and upon further review, it can be said that the concerns certainly aren't baseless. The idea of creating a sentient artificial intelligence is one that raises a whole number of questions, and even though in the real world we haven't ventured this far, Neal Asher uses it as the base for his new book series, Transformation .