Written by Neal Asher, arguably the best science fiction writer of a generation . CowlTakes place in the fourth millenium, where the Heliothane dominion rules the solar system. Some of it's enemies however have excaped into the past, namely the artifically advanced humanoied, the most dangerours of all, who goes by the name of Cowl. Cowl now seeks to wreck havoc on the Heliothane from the past.