Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and still lives nearby. His previous full-length novels are Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Polity Agent, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War and The Gabble.
The Shadow of the Scorpion skillfully combines graphic action and
sensitive characterisation and is Asher's most accomplished novel
to date.
*Guardian*
A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence, evocative world-building
and typically grotesque monsters, but it’s amazing how much emotion
he’s also layered into what could have been a simplistic SF
potboiler. Asking difficult questions while still delivering plenty
of full-tilt adventure and widescreen action, this is top-notch
stuff from an author well and truly at the top of his game.
*SFX*
Ian Cormac is, it seems, here to stay in the collective
consciousness of sci-fi literature… Thoroughly enjoyable stuff.
*SciFiNow*
An insane, sexy war story full of giant explosions on alien worlds.
It's also a well-plotted exploration of the way violence destroys
everything, even memory.
*Io9*
The novel manages to raise some interesting points about what it
means to be human in a society where the lines between man and
machine have blurred: robots are capable of emulating emotions and
humans may be technologically augmented and live indefinitely. When
it is possible to have traumatic memories erased from the human
brain, the novel questions the wisdom of doing so and suggests that
memories and pain shape our psyche.
*The Book Bag*
The Shadow of the Scorpion skillfully combines graphic
action and sensitive characterisation and is Asher's most
accomplished novel to date. * Guardian *
A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence, evocative world-building
and typically grotesque monsters, but it's amazing how much emotion
he's also layered into what could have been a simplistic SF
potboiler. Asking difficult questions while still delivering plenty
of full-tilt adventure and widescreen action, this is top-notch
stuff from an author well and truly at the top of his game. * SFX
*
Ian Cormac is, it seems, here to stay in the collective
consciousness of sci-fi literature... Thoroughly enjoyable stuff. *
SciFiNow *
An insane, sexy war story full of giant explosions on alien worlds.
It's also a well-plotted exploration of the way violence destroys
everything, even memory. * Io9 *
The novel manages to raise some interesting points about what it
means to be human in a society where the lines between man and
machine have blurred: robots are capable of emulating emotions and
humans may be technologically augmented and live indefinitely. When
it is possible to have traumatic memories erased from the human
brain, the novel questions the wisdom of doing so and suggests that
memories and pain shape our psyche. * The Book Bag *
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