The Skinner
β Scribed by Neal Asher
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Edition
- 1st mass market ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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...
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SUMMARY: 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; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal.
### From Publishers Weekly With his second novel (after 2003's Gridlinked), a rousing space opera, Asher takes us to Spatterjay, a deadly planet reminiscent of that in Harry Harrison's 1960 classic Deathworld. Spatterjay has Earth-equivalent gravity and a breathable atmosphere, but it overflows wit
Welcome to Spatterjay... where sudden death is the normal way of life. 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; and Keechβdead for seven hundred
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 no
Welcome to Spatterjay ... where sudden death is the normal way of life. ### Amazon Review In his second full-length SF novel *The Skinner*, Neal Asher offers an exhilarating clash of multiple factions--each with their own peculiar agenda--on the lethal waterworld Spatterjay. The seas teem with hu