The Soldier

Neal Asher’s books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain – John ScalziThe Soldier provides everything we demand from Asher: a beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven – Peter F. HamiltonA richly imagined, exotic world, nonstop action, and unimaginable stakes - I couldn’t put The Soldier down – Yoon Ha Lee, author of Ninefox GambitNeal Asher’s coruscating mix of epic space opera, weaponised Darwinism and high-stakes intrigue channels the primal flame of deep-core science fiction – Paul McAuley, author of Four Hundred Billion StarsThis is space opera at a high peak of craftsmanship * Publishers Weekly *Asher is a modern master of Sci-Fi * Starburst *

Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light-years away. His full-length novels are the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. The Spatterjay series: The Skinner The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Set in the same Polity are: Hilldiggers, PradorMoon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, and also the Transformation trilogy: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. In a dystopian future are: The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Soldier, the first book in the Rise of the Jain series, returns to the Polity.