The Skinner: The First Spatterjay Novel Contributor(s): Asher, Neal (Author) |
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ISBN: 159780987X ISBN-13: 9781597809870 Publisher: Night Shade Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Science Fiction - Military - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Opera |
Dewey: 823.92 |
Series: Spatterjay |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 4.2" W x 6.7" (0.55 lbs) 480 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the mind of Neal Asher, world-renown author of more than 20 books and nominee for both the Philip K. Dick and the British Fantasy Society awards, comes a new action-filled science fiction Polity epic. Three visitors arrive on one of the most unique (and deadly) worlds science fiction has ever seen, in the start of a classic Polity series from Neal Asher. Welcome to Spatterjay . . . where sudden death is the normal way of life. On the remote planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of a hornet Hive mind; Erlin, a xenobiologist searching for an ancient sea captain; and Sable Keech, who himself has been dead for 700 years. On this ocean world, visitors are rare, and the native hoopers--humans infected with a local virus that renders them nearly invincible, though at monstrous cost--patrol the open seas, risking the voracious appetites of the planet's deadly wildlife. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop, the last member of a band of pirates, whose many years spent on the planet have transformed him into a grotesque monster. And a vicious alien prador is about to pay Spatterjay a visit as well, intent on extermination. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death. |