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A review by macindog
The Skinner by Neal Asher
5.0
On Spatterjay it's eat or be eaten. Everything is on something else's menu, no exceptions. The leeches that infest the ocean and the land carry a virus that repairs injury and prolongs life - nothing like an endless supply of food for these leeches.
Three humans have come to Spatterjay, each with their own agenda...Sable Keech, a Polity monitor dead for over 700 years but still seeking the last of the eight people he swore to bring to justice for crimes against humanity during the Prador war; Erlin, a 240-year-old xenobiologist returning to Spatterjay to find her old lover Captain Ambel and maybe a new meaning in her increasingly-boring life and Janer, an 'eternal tourist' paid by an insect hive-mind to carry its hornet observers on his travels around the universe.
But Spatterjay has a history. During the Prador war, a pirate called jay Hoop and his band used it as a base for supplying the enemy Prador race with cored human blanks, basically humans with their neural systems ripped out. They killed millions of people and rumour has it that Hoop is still alive but transformed into a monstrous creature called 'The Skinner'. With all of Hoop's gang alraedy accounted for, it's this that Keech has come to kill for good.
Another excellent tale of Polity space from Neal Asher. The Prador, the inhabitants of Spatterjay (both human and indigenous), the Polity A.I.s and our three heroes all make this a fun ride from beginning to end.
Three humans have come to Spatterjay, each with their own agenda...Sable Keech, a Polity monitor dead for over 700 years but still seeking the last of the eight people he swore to bring to justice for crimes against humanity during the Prador war; Erlin, a 240-year-old xenobiologist returning to Spatterjay to find her old lover Captain Ambel and maybe a new meaning in her increasingly-boring life and Janer, an 'eternal tourist' paid by an insect hive-mind to carry its hornet observers on his travels around the universe.
But Spatterjay has a history. During the Prador war, a pirate called jay Hoop and his band used it as a base for supplying the enemy Prador race with cored human blanks, basically humans with their neural systems ripped out. They killed millions of people and rumour has it that Hoop is still alive but transformed into a monstrous creature called 'The Skinner'. With all of Hoop's gang alraedy accounted for, it's this that Keech has come to kill for good.
Another excellent tale of Polity space from Neal Asher. The Prador, the inhabitants of Spatterjay (both human and indigenous), the Polity A.I.s and our three heroes all make this a fun ride from beginning to end.