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Neal Asher

NEAL ASHER

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I was born in 1961 in Essex, Great Britain, and still live there with my wife Caroline. I’ve been an SF and fantasy junky ever since having my mind distorted at an early age by JRRT, Edgar Rice Burroughs an..ubb. Sometime after leaving school I decided to focus on only one of my many interests because it was inclusive of the others: writing. Finally taken on by a large publisher, Pan Macmillan, my first full-length SF novel, Gridlinked, came out in 2001, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man and The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Polity Agent were published over subsequent years and Hilldiggers is due out this coming July, when I’m also due to hand in Line War. Most of these books have been taken by publishers in America, Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Romania and Japan. Over twenty years have passed since I first started banging away on a manual typewriter (pc now), but then nothing worthwhile comes easy. More information available here: http://freespace.virgin.net/n.asher http://theskinner.blogspot.com/

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Neal Asher Line War RRP: £17.99 Our Price: £14.99 Saturday 5th April, 1-2pm London...
Posted by Neal Asher on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:27:00 PST

Line War Giveaway.

Here, check out fantasybookcritic where there’s a Line War giveaway. There’s also an interview with me to be found, which will soon, I believe, be updated....
Posted by Neal Asher on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:34:00 PST

Signing

Okay, I'll be doing a signing at Forbidden Planet in Shaftesbury Avenue on 5th April from 1 till 2. There'll be copies of the hardcover Line War and doubtless numerous others of my books, including pa...
Posted by Neal Asher on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:13:00 PST

links

You can find two of my Mason's Rats stories in the The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann. And you can also listen to my story Acephalous Dreams on Escape Pod....
Posted by Neal Asher on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:43:00 PST

Writing News

Here's a bit of an update on the writing and so forth: My Czech publishers - Polaris - have offered for rights of The Voyage of the Sable Keech. Publication will be within 12 months, licence limit...
Posted by Neal Asher on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:33:00 PST

Film Deal (Not).

Ah bollocks. A month or so ago I got an email from a guy asking me about the film rights for Hilldiggers and, ever since, I was understandably keeping my fingers crossed what with the guy concerned be...
Posted by Neal Asher on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:44:00 PST

Hilldiggers Reviews.

Excellent reviews of Hilldiggers have now appeared in the national (mainly SFF film and TV oriented) magazines SFX, Starburst and Deathray. Here's some samples from them: It might not quite trump ...
Posted by Neal Asher on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:04:00 PST

Frog Whelks

This tickled my so I thought I'd ask if I could put it up here. It's from Andy on Myspace....
Posted by Neal Asher on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:28:00 PST

DaveO Prog Rock Show.

Okay, on the 18th August I'll be on the DaveO Prog Rock Show which runs from 10pm till midnight. Probably I'll be talking a lot of nonsense about my books, SF and life the universe and everything in g...
Posted by Neal Asher on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST

Escape Pod.

Hey, check out Escape Pod and listen to Steve Ely reading my short story The Veteran. http://escapepod.org/2007/08/09/ep118-the-veteran/ Seated on a bollard, the man contemplatively removed his ...
Posted by Neal Asher on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:06:00 PST