Title: Cowl
Title Record # 167798
Author: Neal Asher
Date: 2004-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: time travel (3), science fiction (1), far future (1) Add Tags
Author: Neal Asher
Date: 2004-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time and undo their defeat. The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt. Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. It sheds its scales - each one an organic time machine - where its master orders. Anyone who picks one up is dragged back to the dawn of time, where Cowl awaits. Then the beast can feed, growing ever larger... In our own near-future, Tack is one of U-gov’s programmable killers. When a scale latches onto him, his doom seems inevitable, but the Heliothane have other ideas: they can use Tack against Cowl. Tack is no stranger to violence, but the Heliothane, hardened in their struggle for humanity’s very existence, have much to teach him. He will need it all for his encounter with Cowl.Once one of Tack’s targets, Polly escaped with her life when a torbeast scale snatched her. Now, like Tack, she must learn fast as she is dragged back to Day Zero. To cheat death again, she will have to help him save the human race.
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 2006 Dick | Philip K. Dick Award |
Nomination (as Die Zeitbestie) | 2006 Kurd Lasswitz Prize | Bestes ausländisches Werk |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Cowl | 2004-03-00 | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 1-4050-0137-2 | £17.99?£: UK pound |
406 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Steve Rawlings | |
Cowl | 2004-03-00 | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 1-4050-4805-0 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
406 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Cowl | 2005-00-00 | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 0-330-41158-6 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
469 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Steve Rawlings | |
Cowl | 2005-04-00 | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 0-330-41158-6 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
469 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Steve Rawlings | |
Cowl | 2005-05-00 | Neal Asher | Tor | 0-765-31420-7 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
320 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Bruce Jensen | |
Cowl | 2005-05-00 | Neal Asher | Tor | 0-765-31512-2 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
320 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Bruce Jensen | |
Cowl | 2006-04-00 | Neal Asher | Tor | 0-765-35279-6 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
422 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Bruce Jensen | |
Cowl | 2009-08-21 | Neal Asher | Tor UK | 978-0-330-46485-7 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Jon Sullivan | ||
Cowl | 2009-10-02 | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 978-0-330-51255-8 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
528 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Jon Sullivan | |
Cowl | 2017-11-16 | Neal Asher | Macmillan UK | 978-1-5098-6513-0 | £16.99?£: UK pound |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel | |||
Cowl | 2020-01-23 | Neal Asher | Tor UK | 978-1-5290-0228-7 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
480 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Cowl | date unknown | Neal Asher | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 1-4050-0137-2 | £17.99?£: UK pound |
406 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Steve Rawlings |
Reviews
- Review by Dave M. Roberts (2004) in Vector 234
- Review by Russell Letson (2004) in Locus, #518 March 2004
- Review
[French]
by
Philippe-Aubert Côté?Philippe-Aubert Cote(2009) in Solaris, #171