

I mean, why not? He has a very engaging splatterpunk Hard-SF style with tons of great alien environments, interesting aliens, AIs, enormous constructs, ancient dead alien cultures, cyborgs, regenerative immortals, and more bullets and interesting ways to kill stuff than you can shake a railgun at. I decided to go all out and even read the short stories surrounding some of the memorable and unknown peeps in the connected universe that Neal Asher has made.

The Gabble (2006) / novelette by Neal Asher Snow in the Desert (2002) / novelette by Neal AsherĬhoudapt (2000) / novelette by Neal AsherĪdaptogenic (1994) / short story by Neal Asher The Sea of Death (2001) / short story by Neal AsherĪlien Archaeology (2007) / novella by Neal AsherĪcephalous Dreams (2005) / novelette by Neal Asher Garp and Geronamid (2005) / novelette by Neal Asher (variant of Garp & Geronamid) Putrefactors (1999) / novelette by Neal Asher Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck (2005) / novelette by Neal Asher Through these stories, welcome to a universe of unbridled imagination, each one of them a delight in itself. No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont. Most of Neal Asher's stories are set in a galactic future-scape called 'The Polity', and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe.
