Gridlinked

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Gridlinked

First edition
Author	Neal Asher
Cover artist	Steve Rawlings/Debut Art
Language	English
Series	Ian Cormac
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Pan Books
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	522
ISBN	0-330-48433-8
OCLC	48487054
Followed by	The Line of Polity

Gridlinked is a science fiction novel by British writer Neal Asher. His first novel, it was published by the Macmillan Publishers imprint Pan Books in 2001. It contains elements of the technological inventiveness of hard science-fiction with a more contemporary political plotline. The novel follows the exploits of Earth Central Security agent Ian Cormac, as he attempts to discover who or what is behind the destruction of the Runcible on a remote colony. Cormac drops an investigation into Polity separatists on Cheyne III, and takes the starship Hubris to the ruined world of Samarkand to directly oversee the investigation there. Having been directly "gridlinked" to the Polity A.I. network for too long, Cormac has been slowly losing his humanity, and takes the opportunity of this particular mission to disconnect and solve the mystery the old-fashioned way.