Ebook {Epub PDF} The Skinner by Neal Asher

Praise for The Skinner “An exhilarating tour through one of the most ingeniously, elaborately deadly worlds since Harry Harrison invented Deathworld.” —Locus “Dune meets Master and Commander.”—Entertainment Weekly General Praise for Neal Asher: “Neal Asher’s books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain.”—New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi. Neal Asher is a hell of a storyteller. Made me want to skip straight to "The Skinner" and the Spatterjay trilogy but I am one of those people who have to read things in order. There are 3 separate "Owner" short stories that have the same twist. I found this to be a fascinating insight into Asher's writing process.  · Hardcover: £ ISBN: Size: x cm. Pages: The price of immortality is high, when flesh is a harvest. 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 (Tim Cadman) 'an exhilarating tour through one of.

Asher, Neal. The Skinner. New York: Tor, p. Anguine: "Of or related to or resembling a snake." What a great word! "Pieces of shell and gobbets of flesh were being pulled at and rapidly denuded by dark, unclearly seen, anguine shapes in the water." (7) Intagliate: "To engrave in intaglio; as, an intagliated. ‎The Skinner is the first book in Neal Asher's Spatterjay series set in a lethal waterworld. To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; a. The Skinner. Set in a lethal waterworld, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher. The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet.

Reviewed in the United States on Aug. Verified Purchase. Neal Asher's "The Skinner," though written way back in , is currently the 11th novel in his "Polity Universe" series and the 1st in his "Spatterjay" sub-series. This book is a good one (especially since it looks like it's the second novel he wrote). The Skinner is a science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the first novel in the Spatterjay sequence. Plot. The Skinner tells the story of three individuals who have journeyed to the 'line-world' (a world on the 'line', or border, of the Human Polity) of Spatterjay, a hostile mostly aquatic world with ferocious native lifeforms. Set in a lethal waterworld, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher. The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet.