Prador Moon.

[Vertigo]

I've just read this and loved it. I thought it was brilliant - a real page turner with some great ideas. I did read Gridlinked first but have now decided to read all the Polity novels (including Cormac and Spatterjay) in the chronological order NA posted in another thread. Really looking forward to working my way through the rest!

 

[Neal Asher]

Glad you are all enjoying the books. You might be interested to know that they are all coming out with new covers. Check out my blog THE SKINNER

 

[Rodders]

I picked this up today on my latest book haul. I have to say Neal that your stuff is hugely addictive. I've nearly finished the Technician and i've found that the more i read the more i want to find out about the Prador, the Jain, the Polity and the drones.

 

[Rodders]

Started today. I'm quite looking forward to reading this.

 

[Bugg]

Read this over the weekend - thought it was terrific, and great to read a book of this kind that's so short and to the point. It was also good to find out all that history of how the war started. Now on to Orbus

 

[Ursa major]

I've just read this and loved it. I thought it was brilliant - a real page turner with some great ideas. I did read Gridlinked first but have now decided to read all the Polity novels (including Cormac and Spatterjay) in the chronological order NA posted in another thread. Really looking forward to working my way through the rest!

I wish I'd read Prador Moon earlier: while still most enjoyable, some of the edge was taken off because I had a good idea of what might happen after having read all the Ian Cormac novels.

 

[AE35Unit]

Heres my take on it from 2010:

http://sfaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/crab-paste-in-space.html

 

[Vertigo]

I wish I'd read Prador Moon earlier: while still most enjoyable, some of the edge was taken off because I had a good idea of what might happen after having read all the Ian Cormac novels.

I seem to remember that I started with Gridlinked and this was just about when I first joined the Chorns. On seeing Neal's timeline on one of these threads, I switched to reading chronologically. So, as I recall, I read Gridlinked, then Prador Moon and then Shadow of the Scorpion and continued on from there.

 

[AE35Unit]

I seem to remember that I started with Gridlinked and this was just about when I first joined the Chorns. On seeing Neal's timeline on one of these threads, I switched to reading chronologically. So, as I recall, I read Gridlinked, then Prador Moon and then Shadow of the Scorpion and continued on from there.

I didnt enjoy Gridlinked as much. A bit too long I thought. Ive The Skinner to read next .

 

[J-Sun]

I almost agree with Ursa and find Patrick and Larry fortunate in starting with this book. There are pros and cons to reading The Line of Polity (especially) before or after Prador Moon but I suspect it would almost work better reading this first and this would certainly be a great place to start - like Bugg says, (relatively) "short and to the point". I could always find stuff to criticize but I don't want to - this was a pure adrenalin charge with no sag-in-the-middle at all. Maximum impact. This is my sixth Asher and my favorite. Despite that, while I'd be happy to read more in the vicinity of the Prador war I'd prefer it if they were pretty standalone. While this one's heavily linked to The Line of Polity in ways, it works by itself completely and I love that.

I was struck by your blog review, though, Larry: you say you finished after four days which is really fast for you and I finished in about 24 hours from Sunday to Monday (!) which is incredibly fast for me though it's partly because I couldn't put it down and partly because this is not much longer than a classic SF novel (my paperback is 343 pages but has a 43 page excerpt in the back and huge font and margins to where I think it'd fit in a standard 225 page paperback) which ties into the other part where you said this book was very "now". I agree that it is a great representative of modern neo-space opera in many ways but it's also very old school (like 30s style) in the sense that we get some thoroughly nasty aliens and a clear "between us and them I pick us!" rather than the moral fuzziness of so much modern SF. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of that but it's sometimes a breath of fresh air to just fight for your life - spoilers, heh -

Spoiler

and win

.