Polity Agent
by Neal Asher (Tor, 2006); audiobook read by Ric Jerrom (Macmillan, 2017)
Science fiction at its most futuristic and sweeping, yet totally lacking in heart. For all the complex characters, grand ideas and unstoppably momentous tectonic-plate plot clashes, listening to this was the aural equivalent of chewing through cardboard. Aborted at the two-fifths mark.