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    <body><![CDATA[I tended to consider Neal Asher as &quot;ersatz Iain M. Banks&quot;. Good enough to give me a dose of Space Opera adventure with some brains, while waiting for a new Banks book that usually made me think harder.<br/><br/>This is the book that changed that view. The Skinner follows many of the Spac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21151834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book Review:  The Skinner by Neal Asher<br/><br/>Published in 2002 by TOR Books<br/><br/>Cover Illustration by Jim Burns<br/><br/>Artwork located via <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a><br/><br/>It was not until half way through the novel, which clocks in at 424 pages in the edition owned, that the name of the planet Spatte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81356247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far the best book that I have read this year! Seriously...Neal Asher has a penchant for world-building that puts most writers (myself included) to shame. The characters are fantastical and multi-faceted and I had more than a few favorites, but the world of Spatterjay in Asher's 'Polity' universe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71925401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce bouquin est pour moi une bonne surprise ... mais reprenons les choses par le début.<br/>Dans cette histoire, on suit les périgrinations de toute un tas de personnages sur une planète rien moins qu'hospitalière (elle m'a d'ailleurs fait penser à l'étrange monde de <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=L'incident Jésus" title="L'incident Jésus">L'incident Jésus</a>). Outre ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31584678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hi-tech futuristic sci-fi setting crossed with a backwater planet teeming with dangerous wildlife, its people infected with a virus that renders them practically immortal, a cop who's been dead 700 years and still pursuing the (really nasty!) criminals, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27543.Artificial_Intelligence_A_Modern_Approach_2nd_Edition_" title="Artificial Intelligence  A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart J. Russell">artificial intelligence</a>s that have snarky se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22400032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never a dull moment in this wicked fun tale.  The story is sort of mix of <em>Dune</em>, <em>Moby Dick</em>, <em>Star Wars</em>, and <em>The Thing</em>.  The action takes place on the dangerous planet of Spatterjay.  With the exception of a few islands and tiny atolls, Spatterjay is mostly a vast ocean teeming with very hungry, very a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19660801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Skinner is old-school scifi awesomeness. Read it on vacation in three days and loved it. Great world-building efforts, the biology is fun, and the character motivation keeps the story rolling. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok book about a planet where you can become immortal (just about) and the longer you exist the stronger you become.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book leans a bit more towards fantasy than Asher's others, since it all takes place on one world and technology and space travel is not quite as emphasized.  It is a pretty good action story with a lot of violence and ridiculousness spread throughout.<br/><br/>The world of Spatterjay is reall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3906837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I've ever read anything quite so inventive as this novel. Sailing ships with living sails, lethal aliens, giant leeches, war drones, more lethal aliens, vast AI minds, boosted humans, mercenaries, yet more lethal aliens... Take a bit of Larry Niven before he lost it, Peter Hamilton wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67482218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible! Asher fully imagines a future and a world, writing this vision in a believable way because none of it feels forced. He has created believable characters w/ complex motives, immersed them in a complicated plot, and produced one of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read. If you like sci-fi,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20050340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't finish this one.<br/><br/>My first and probably last Neal Asher book.<br/><br/>To sum up my feelings, the events (and to some extent the writing) in this book seemed rather juvenile.  Everything is exaggerated, a bit of a gross out, and really stretches suspension of disbelief.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the kind of book I love the most.  It is wildly inventive and filled with a boistrous high-tech sci fi gleefulness that makes reading it a true joy.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of fun with some interesting world building.  Asher imagines an eco-system based on parasitism instead of outright predation.  Violent at times, but rarely boring.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is hard core sci-fi...yet Im still reading. Ok I finfished it.  Interesting.  I thought it was a little gory and had the potential for more humor.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite science fiction novels.  A grand adventure on an alien world with some great, original characters.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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