The Skinner
β Scribed by Neal Asher
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0330465422
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β¦ Synopsis
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 yearsβhas unfinished business with a notorious criminal.
Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome and only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop himself, and monitor Keech cannot rest until he can bring this legendary renegade to justice for atrocious crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars.
Keech does not realise that Hoop's body is running free on an island wilderness, while his living head is confined in a box on an Old Captain's ships. Nor does he know that the most brutal Prador of all is about to pay a...
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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.
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
### 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
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