neal asher

I have pre-ordered. Due for release in May 2022, Weaponized is Neal Asher next Polity book. With the advent of new AI technology, Polity citizens now possess incredible lifespans. Yet they struggle to find meaning in their longevity, seeking danger and novelty in their increasingly mundane...

This is the third and final(?) book in Asher’s Rise of the Jain series. The last surviving Jain has emerged from the U-space blister where it has been trapped for millions of years, in a ship so massive that that the swarm of relatively small attack ships docked on its hull like limpets are...

Neal Asher has a New Polity book due for release in June. Synopsis This high-octane adventure is set in the same world as Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity universe. It's a thrilling, fast-paced standalone novel, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter. Created to die –...

The Warship is the second book in Asher’s Rise of the Jain trilogy that is possibly shaping up to be my favourite series yet of Asher’s Polity books. The Warship is packed with action from start to finish; my edition has a brief quote from Locus magazine – ‘Titanic battle sequences’ – that...

Hello everyone, I have just signed up to this forum. I have started reading Neal Asher´s work one year ago. Not having read anything from him before, I was kind of overwhelmed with the extent of the Polity series so I decided to start from the latest, at the time The Soldier. I have been an...

Right then - I’ve read all the Neal Asher books (I think) and while we wait for The Owner #4 (Pleeeeease it can’t just end like that!) can anyone recommend something else in an Asheresque mould? Love this sort of stuff!

Ok - just finished Prador Moon and loved it. I'd really like to read about the start of it all. How we left the solar system and went from there. Is there a book for that?

I have just preordered this on Amazon. Due for release in January 2018. I will look for a photo to post later. Anyone else getting one.

One of the problems I have when writing my thoughts on books is the common complaint that we only ever notice things when they go wrong, never when they go right. In the same way I generally notice and can easily identify all the things I hate in a book but I frequently fail to notice what it is...

Here is an interview with Neal.

I'm curious about the effect of the Spatterjay virus on a human with an unlimited food supply. I know when Pradors can eat their fill they end up mutated but stronger and smarter. However the only references for humans are 'short of food' so you get a Skinner type with a leech head...

In this second book in Neal Asher’s transformation trilogy, Penny Royal continues to manipulate all the various players to its own ends. Sverl the transformed Prador is becoming steadily more human, especially in his thinking, Thorvald Spear is continuing to hunt for Penny Royal but is also...

Another excellent offering from Asher – he so rarely disappoints me! This is a rather darker book than Asher’s norm and, whilst he always tends to write ambiguous heroes, in this book they are more than normally on the dark side of things. This should probably not be surprising considering this...

I started reading Neal Asher's books about a couple of months ago, and am now as far Gridlinked in the Polity series, hoping that I have not missed any of it following Neal's posted time line in his own post in another thread. Like many visitors to this forum I have found that Neal really...

A great close to this trilogy, well-paced with plenty of good space opera action though it did have its flaws. The science in this trilogy is all very speculative with computer brain interfaces, back up brains, Alcubierre drive and mach-effect drive which doesn’t usually bother me particularly...

As I'm sure some at least are aware, Neal sadly lost his wife a couple of years back and has been struggling to be productive since (most of the work on the new Transformation series was already written before she died). But it now seems he is getting back to productive work...

Cowl Neal Asher Tor, May 2005, $14.95, 320 pp. ISBN: 0765315122 In the distant future, the Heliothane Dominion has won the devastating war against the genetically altered Cowl. However, though defeated in their present time, some of the Cowl escape fleeing to different ages in the past. The...

Brass Man Neal Asher Tor, Jan 2007, $14.95 ISBN: 0765317311 Schizoid when he controls his impulses; psychopathic as his norm, the maniacal Golem Mr. Crane is an insane killing cyborg machine brought back from the abyss by the deranged Skellor who combines the most amoral human artificial...

Another excellent story from Neal Asher – one of my favourite authors – and the second book in the Owner trilogy. I found it much better than the first book but still lacking a certain something compared to his Polity books. These books take place entirely in within the solar system giving them...

A Transformation Novel: I just saw this on the Forbidden Planet web site. Neal, what can you tell us? This looks awesome.