Neal Asher
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.14 | 5506 Users | 250 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Skinner |
| ISBN: | 0765350483 (ISBN13: 9780765350480) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Spatterjay #1, Polity Universe (chronological order) #12 |
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Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner.On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet revealed to him; Erlin, searching for Ambel -- the ancient sea captain who can teach her how to live; and Sable Keech, on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for 700 years. This remote world is mostly ocean, and it is a rare visitor who ventures beyond the safety of the island Dome. Outside it, only the native Hoopers dare risk the voracious appetites of the planet's wildlife. But somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop -- and Keech will not rest until he brings this legendary renegade to justice for hideous crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars.
While Keech is discovering that Hoop is now a monster -- his body and head living apart from each other -- Janer is bewildered by a place where the native inhabitants just will not die and angry when he finally learns the Hive mind's intentions for him. Meanwhile, Erlin thinks she has plenty of time to find the answers she seeks, but could not be more wrong. For one of the most brutal of the alien Prador is about to pay the planet a surreptitious visit, intent on exterminating all remaining witnesses to his wartime atrocities. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death.
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| Title | : | The Skinner (Spatterjay #1) |
| Author | : | Neal Asher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2005 by Tor Science Fiction (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 5506 Users | 250 ReviewsNotice Of Books The Skinner (Spatterjay #1)
Every time I pick up a book by an author I have never read before I always hope to find a new favorite, most of the time this does not happen. I mean what are the odds? If I find a new favourite author every month I would not be a very discerning reader. The best I can realistically hope for is to discover a new author whose back catalogue I am keen to investigate. Still, occasionally I strike gold, I think I just did. There are zillions of genre authors vying for my attention when I browseTHE SKINNERby Neal AsherREVIEW SUMMARY'The Skinner' by Neal Asher is easily one of my favourite novels. My copy has now been read so many times that both covers are held on solely by tape.The story is set in Asher's 'Polity', a potential future wherein artificial intelligences (AIs) benevolently rule humanity's interstellar dominion. This novel focuses on the planet of Spatterjay, a brutal but intricately-realised locale, and one of the most brilliant science fiction settings I know of. Against
A captivating mix of science fiction and fantasy. Containing all the swashbuckling excitement of a YA story, but ratcheted up to a gritty adult level, this crazy weird novel includes killer crustaceans, a decapitated captain, carnivorous crabs, hornet hive-minds, AIs with attitude, lecherous leaches, super-human sailors, a vile villainess and a mummified zombie cyborg. A very original mix...just way, way cool. Looking forward to reading Spatterjay #2, The Voyage of the Sable Keech.
I tended to consider Neal Asher as "ersatz Iain M. Banks". Good enough to give me a dose of Space Opera adventure with some brains, while waiting for a new Banks book that usually made me think harder.This is the book that changed that view. The Skinner follows many of the Space Opera conventions, including big adventure, big guns and bigger than life characters. Much bigger than life in this novel, as coping with inmortality, and boredom, and past mistakes and crimes, is one of the common
A captivating mix of science fiction and fantasy. Containing all the swashbuckling excitement of a YA story, but ratcheted up to a gritty adult level, this crazy weird novel includes killer crustaceans, a decapitated captain, carnivorous crabs, hornet hive-minds, AIs with attitude, lecherous leaches, super-human sailors, a vile villainess and a mummified zombie cyborg. A very original mix...just way, way cool. Looking forward to reading Spatterjay #2, The Voyage of the Sable Keech.
The word for world is ... Ocean (apologies to Ursula Leguin). This is Spatterjay, a waterworld populated by decidedly hostile fauna, backdrop for a richly imagined multi-threaded story that rivals the best SF books of the 2000s. Quite a tour-de-force worthy of multiple re-reads, and deserving of the lofty 4+ rating on Goodreads.Here we meet Sable Keech, the most interesting of a long list of characters, a reification (resuscitated dead person), following the centuries old trail of a criminal.
Wow!This was a brilliant book, everything I have heard claimed about it is true. The Sci-Fi element is excellent and the fact that it is on a Marine based world totally rocked my boat (pardon the pun). I thought the world building was utterly spectacular. There is always something exciting about the really dangerous worlds created in Sci-Fi, this is one of them. On Spatterjay, most life is marine, all of it wants to kill you slowly and painfully and most of it, right down to the prawns, leaches
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