Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac needs to skip very nimbly indeed to rescue the Samarkand project and protect his own life. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow.ĭespite the sub-zero temperature of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: they are two 'dracomen', alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity calling itself 'Dragon', which is a huge creature consisting of four conjoined spheres of flesh each a kilometre in diameter. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. The immortal Horace Blegg sends agent Cormac to investigate, but Cormac must resolve things without the support of the AI grid, for his thirty years of being gridlinked has left him without. His arrival has killed thousands and wrecked a terraforming project. The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. A technician comes through the runcible on Samarkand at a fraction below light speed. In outer space you can never feel sure that your adversary is altogether human.

His latest book, The Line of Polity, is a complex, multilayered story about rebels in a slave world. Thereafter, he decided to go back to school and finally graduated. SF/fantasy writer Neal Asher is the author of Gridlinked and The Skinner.

After leaving school, he worked for a steel furniture maker, then operated a milling machine and began writing again. As his debut novel, Gridlinked is the perfect place to start with Asher’s work, and most definitely recommended. He started writing SF and fantasy at 16 after what he terms an 'overdose' of E.C.

'Asher has lit up the sky of Science Fiction like a new sun.' Tanith Lee Neal Asher Neal Asher was born in 1961 in Billericay in Essex. a fast-moving and enjoyable tale., 'Gritty. After leaving school, he worked for a steel furniture maker, then operated a milling machine and began writing again. Gridlinked is the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series. Neal Asher makes the move to the big league with Gridlinked. Gridlinked Neal Asher Neal Asher was born in 1961 in Billericay in Essex.

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