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Neal Asher

(b.1961)

Neal Asher lives sometimes in England, sometimes in Crete and mostly at a keyboard. Having over eighteen books published he has been accused of overproduction (despite spending far too much time ranting on his blog, cycling off fat, and drinking too much wine) but doesn’t intend to slow down just yet.

Genres: Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

April 2025

Dark Diamond
(Time's Shadow, book 1)

Series

Polity
   The Engineer (1998)
   Runcible Tales (1999)
   The Engineer Reconditioned (2006)
   1. Prador Moon (2006)
   Hilldiggers (2007)
   Shadow of the Scorpion (2008)
   The Gabble (2008)
   The Technician (2010)
   Owning the Future (2018)
   The Bosch (2020)
   Lockdown Tales (2020)
   Jack Four (2021)
   Weaponized (2022)
   Lockdown Tales 2 (2023)
   War Bodies (2023)

Agent Cormac
   1. Gridlinked (2001)
   2. The Line of Polity (2003)
   3. Brass Man (2005)
   4. Polity Agent (2006)
   5. The Line War (2008)

Spatterjay
   1. The Skinner (2002)
   2. The Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006)
   3. Orbus (2009)

Owner Trilogy
   1. The Departure (2011)
   2. Zero Point (2012)
   3. Jupiter War (2013)

Transformation
   1. Dark Intelligence (2015)
   2. War Factory (2016)
   3. Infinity Engine (2017)

Rise of the Jain
   1. The Soldier (2018)
   2. The War Ship (2019)
   3. The Human (2020)

Time's Shadow
1. Dark Diamond (2025)

Novels

Cowl (2004)
World Walkers (2024)

Collections

   Mason's Rats (1999)
   Conflicts (2012) (with Keith Brooke and Eric Brown)
   Fantastical (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Mindgames: Fool's Mate (1992)
   The Parasite (1996)
   Africa Zero (2001)
   Snow in the Desert (2011)
   Jenny Trapdoor (2023)

Books containing stories by Neal Asher

Love, Death and Robots: Volumes 2 & 3 (2022)
(Love, Death and Robots, book 2)
edited by
Geoff Brown and Amanda J Spedding

London Centric (2020)
Tales of Future London
edited by
Ian Whates

Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers (2019)
edited by
Bryan Thomas Schmidt

More books

Award nominations

	2007 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Polity Agent
	2005 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Cowl
	2004 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Line of Polity

Neal Asher recommends

Tomorrow Factory (2018)
Rich Larson
"Enjoyably twisty SF tales with an ample serving of weird tech (and the way it distorts the people who use it). I’ll be looking out for more from Rich Larson."

Artefact (2015)
(Lazarus War, book 1)
Jamie Sawyer
"A hostile race of alien biomechs somewhat in the mould of H. R. Giger aliens . . . terrorism, subterfuge and traitors . . . starships sporting particle beam weapons, railguns the size of skyscrapers, laser batteries, missiles . . . And then there are the uber-human super-soldiers clad in powered armour and wielding plasma weapons . . . Is that enough for you? . . . This, dear readers, is the good stuff. Recommended."

Reviver (2013)
(Reviver trilogy, book 1)
Seth Patrick
"An excellent combination of Afterlife and CSI that’ll keep you up late with the lights very definitely on . . . Highly recommended."

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