Neal Asher is on top form in this fast-paced space opera. His protagonists must race through time to escape their worst nightmare - as events escalate for assassins, soldiers and civilians alike.
Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light-years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion and The Technician. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are: The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Warship is the second book in the Rise of the Jain series, following The Soldier, and is set in the Polity universe.
In Cowl Neal Asher seems to be doing to the time-travel adventure
what he has been doing to space opera and planetary romance: to
pump it full of performance-enhancing substances and send it
crashing through a gigantically expanded version of its traditional
milieu, exploding the big sets and sending body parts flying in all
directions.
*Locus*
Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly
for the brain
*John Scalzi on The Soldier*
The Soldier provides everything we demand from Asher: a beautifully
complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and
struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to
eleven
*Peter F. Hamilton on The Soldier*
The whole impressive, ingenious enterprise hurtles along at a
high-octane clip while swinging with nonchalant abandon between
horror and comedy: call it black slapstick. In sum: a blast
*Kirkus on The Skinner*
His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that
treats the reader as an adult rather than an educationally
subnormal adolescent
*The Times on The Skinner*
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