Polity Series: Difference between revisions

* [[Portal Network]]: We call them Runcibles. Having one on planet is necessary for Polity membership.

* [[Post Cyber Punk]]: As is noted by several reviews, while the stories have the gritty feel of [[Cyberpunk]], the setting is more along the lines of [[Space Opera]], with Cormac and the other protagonists either working for the government, or at least aiming to better society.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: In the backstory to ''The Skinner'', Sable Keech along with a group of Hoopers took revenge on humans who had collaborated with Prador {{spoiler|and sold them to the aliens as slaves}}. As their enemies were also Hoopers, they killed them in brutal, protracted ways, or in one case, placed them in a glass coffin and created a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].

* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: The concept gets a [[Take That]]; the narrator notes that eventually people were able to accurately measure the intelligence of animals, and found that despite longstanding stereotype, dolphins and whales were actually pretty dumb. Instead, the novel has a swarm of wasps who form a Hive Mind / living computer of equal or greater than human intelligence.