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“”All that happened here, when we returned, was to deny Dragon information so it would snatch back its dracoman, like it did before, but also, to make it think we had followed up on our proposed plan but were then entertaining suspicions. I think that if Dragon had known that we knew what had really [...]
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3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
“Neal Asher: Is the writing of SF easy? If you write a normal thriller or crime story, you are dealing with the familiar and the easily described; a gun is a gun, and a car is a car, and don’t need much elaboration. If you’re thinking of the future, you have to think about where [...]
“N = R* fp ne fl fi fc L where, N = The number of communicative civilizations R* = The rate of formation of suitable stars (stars such as our Sun) fp = The fraction of those stars with planets. (Current evidence indicates that planetary systems may be common for stars like the Sun.) ne [...]
“Q. If you had to be transported into a fictional world from any author, which one would you choose? Neal: My own. Yeah, things get a bit fraught out on the border of the Polity, but within it life can be pretty good. You can live forever, choosing from a range of options to that [...]
Continue reading about Answers 8 Crappy Questions – Neal Asher
“Would I want those guys getting their hands on my stuff? Yeah, the money would be rather nice, but really I’d want to know that whoever is in charge has some sort of idea about what they’re dealing with. Remember all those years ago the first book of The Lord of the Rings being turned [...]
“The planet Masada, the planet where this is set, first puts in an appearance in the second book in the five-book Cormac series: 1. Gridlinked, 2. The Line of Polity, 3. Brass Man, 4. Polity Agent, 5. Line War. There was, quite simply, one reason I wanted to return there –gabbleducks – and, initially, that [...]
Continue reading about Galaxy Bookshop Guest Blog Post – Neal Asher
“Sometimes it takes a while to twig to a writer’s strengths. And sometimes you won’t get that clue from the writing itself. I’ve been reading Neal Asher from the first edition of his first big novel for Pan Macmillan, ‘Gridlocked.’ I’ve enjoyed the hell out of every book I’ve read. Asher is an utterly dependable [...]
Continue reading about A Time To Collect Bones – Rick Kleffel
“The sculpture had been mounted on a rock which, though far from the Northern Mountains of the continent, Chanter knew to be the tip of a mountain itself submerged in the underlying tricone-generated soil of the planet Masada. After studying the screen display for a moment longer, he turned to the other displays arrayed before [...]
What do others reader of his read, according to this site? 4 out of 5 http://www.literature-map.com/neal+asher.html
Neal Asher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neal Asher Born Essex, England Occupation Novelist Nationality British Period 2000-Present Genres Science fiction Official website Neal Asher (born 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England) is an English science fiction writer. His parents both are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing Science Fiction and Fantasy in [...]
