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Original Title:	The Skinner
ISBN:	0765350483 (ISBN13: 9780765350480)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Spatterjay #1, Polity Universe (chronological order) #12

The Skinner (Spatterjay #1) Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Title	:	The Skinner (Spatterjay #1)
Author	:	Neal Asher
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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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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THE 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

4.5 StarsThe Skinner by Neal Asher is one hell of an awesome creature feature meshed in a hard science fiction world.The Skinner was complete again and Janer had never before witnessed such a terrible sight. For here was a real monster: a blue man four metres tall and impossibly thin, hands like spiders, a head combining elements of warthog and baboon with much of a human skull, evil black eyes and ears that were bat wings, spatulate legs depending underneath the long jaw like feelers and, when

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.

This was my first Neal Asher book, and he is now solidly on my good list.The story takes place on the planet Spatterjay, where the native lifeforms are incredibly predatory and carriers of a virus that gives them incredible healing powers and super strength, basically making them immortal. The world-building is based around this concept, and it's really well done. The virus's role within the native ecology makes sense and the little glimpses of the food chain on Spatterjay that precede each

I don't know where to start. This book was bloody marvelous. It is dark, violent and entertaining. It is complicated and satisfying. It weaves many, many threads that culminate in splendid conclusions. The huge cast of characters, from the 700-years dead Sable Keech right through to the spunky submind/drone called Sniper, are all awesome. If you are interested in reading a book about killer fish, killer aliens, killer hornets, killer decapitated heads, killer AIs, killer crustaceans and all

By far the best book that I have read this year! Seriously...Neal Asher has a penchant for world-building that puts most writers (myself included) to shame. The characters are fantastical and multi-faceted and I had more than a few favorites, but the world of Spatterjay in Asher's 'Polity' universe takes precedence in everything both macro and micro. The story, if such a loose term could be used, is about a crime that needs to be avenged. It revoles around the epic seas of Spatterjay, the

I really enjoyed this book. I don't read a lot of sci-fi but I thought this was a very good read. For me this wasn't so much a book about characters as it was about the things they do and the world they inhabit. Fortunately the world/s they occupy are full of fascination of both the biological and technological varieties and there's a complex and fast moving plot. So whilst I didn't feel a great emotional investment in any of the characters, I was very interested in reading what happened to