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Neal Asher

Neal Asher

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Excellent, Pocket/Fleuve Noir of the Univers Poche Group are buying Cowl to publish in France next year. They’ve already bought Gridlinked and The Skinner, the latter of which they’ve already published, but they’re skipping Gridlinked to do Cowl, then intend to go with the Cormac series afterwards. I look forward to seeing what they do with the covers, since the French cover image for The Skinner – by Stephan Martiniere - is the best yet, I think you’ll agree.

Image here.
 
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Great news, Neal. Congratulations! And you're right -- the Skinner cover is terrific. If the same cover artist is being used again, should be something special. I look forward to seeing what emerges.
 
Oh wow - that artwork is stunning! And congrats on selling the rights:)

Any chance of getting a nice big version to use as a pc desktop? And I see you've got another book coming out. Prolific is a bit of an understatement!!
 
Thanks Ian. There's always a chance that the same artist might not be used, since though the publisher likes his stuff, he thinks it might not be 'hardcore 'SF enough for my books.

Rane, the problem with using that artwork as a desk top is its ... verticality???
A while ago I was using a cropped image from the front of The Voyage of the Sable Keech. I'm presently using a cropped image of Prador Moon (British version). You'll find it here: The Skinner: Prador Moon back cover.
 
Yeah, I might need to nick that too;)

You have had some really excellent artwork on all your recent books, to be honest. It must be a relief to have found such a good artist when you see some of the generica thats around at the moment.
 
Rane, when I saw the first cover for Gridlinked I was dubious. I had the old SF covers fixed in my mind. When The Skinner came out I was converted and it's been the same artist - Steve Rawlings - ever since. Yeah, I struck lucky. But then, if you check out the artwork for all of Macmillan's SFF books of the last 7 years you'll see that it's all pretty damned good.
 
I know this thread is ostensibly about cover art, but it seemed the right place to make a quick comment about the book itself. Just finished reading it. My first Asher work. A roller coaster ride through time & space. Very enjoyable. Interestingly, (to me at least) I find myself trying to sort out all the levels of "badness" in the characters. I had the same reaction upon seeing the film, "No Country for Old Men". Entirely different stories, but a similar reaction from me. I was on the edge of my seat for "No Country" and had a hard time putting down the book in the case of "Cowl".

Jim
 
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Im reading Cowl and have started enjoying it specially after Polly met Tack and his people.

I havent finished it yet but i like the writing and some real badass characters like Tack. I dont know why but i care more about what happens to him than Polly.

Fleming twist cracked me up :D
 
As I believe I mentioned on here before, Macmillan have decided to produce new covers for the first four of my books. I guess they thought it about time what with, for example, Gridlinked now in its twelfth print run. Here is one of them. Please let me know what you think!

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I thought that i'd give this a bump as i just bought a copy. I've got this and the Technition to read before i move to the Agent Cormac novels.
 
Rodderss, I have not read Cowl or the Technician yet but I can tell you that Gridlinked (book 1 or Cormac series) is very good. I still need to read the rest of the series and Neals other books.
 
Just started this today. I'm only a couple of pages in but it feels weird not being in the Polity. :)
 
WOW, it has taken me a rather long time to read this. I finally finished this today and i have to say that i thoroughly enjoyed it despite my initial misgivings. It's no Skinner or Technician, but it's a solid read.
 
Yeah, i was surprised by how much i enjoyed it. I'll move to the Cormac novels next.
 
I read this recently but I struggled a little with it. I found some of the timetravel stuff difficult to follow but no surpriese there; time travel stuff is always difficult to follow! However I found it much harder to empathise with the two main protagonists than I have with previous Neal Asher books I've read (Polity ones) though I did get there in the end (with Polly at least) but not until I was maybe teo thirds through. But as I said in the monthly reading thread this might be partly me as I have been having some difficulty getting into my reading recently.

Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it but just not as much as the Polity novels I've read. And no, it wasn't that I secretly wanted a Polity novel (I still have more of them to read Yay!!!); I specifically wanted to try something different from Neal.
 
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