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I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. Now I write science fiction books, and am slowly getting over the feeling that someone is going to find me out, and can call myself a writer without wincing and ducking my head. As professions go, I prefer this one: I don’t have to clock-in, change my clothes after work, nor scrub sensitive parts of my body with detergent. I think I’ll hang around.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 139,132 ratings · 6,641 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1, Polity Universe #3) 3.96 avg rating — 13,076 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 8,064 ratings — published 2003 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brass Man (Agent Cormac, #3) 4.15 avg rating — 7,803 ratings — published 2005 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prador Moon (Polity Universe, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 8,089 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Intelligence (Transformation, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 7,027 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4) 4.24 avg rating — 6,752 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skinner (Spatterjay, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 6,871 ratings — published 2002 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Line War (Agent Cormac, #5) 4.29 avg rating — 6,431 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow of the Scorpion (Polity Universe #2) 4.05 avg rating — 4,853 ratings — published 2008 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Departure (Owner Trilogy, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 4,996 ratings — published 2011 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’ve always been interested in biology, physics and chemistry and had a bit of a grasp on it even at a young age. I remember my first pre-teen physics class with the teacher rattling around ping pong balls in a tray, telling us these were atoms and that what we were seeing was heat. When a number of the balls spilled on the floor I pointed out that they were a gas. He looked quite surprised. Read

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“And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.”
― Neal Asher, The Departure

tags: freedom, freedom-fighter, revolution, revolutionary

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“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

tags: atheism, philosophical

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“Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.”
― Neal Asher, The Skinner

tags: human-ness

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MARCH SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the March 2014 SF Book-of-the-month.

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

31 votes, 32.3%

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

19 votes, 19.8%

Blackout by Connie Willis

18 votes, 18.8%

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

9 votes, 9.4%

The Humans by Matt Haig

8 votes, 8.3%

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

7 votes, 7.3%

Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes

4 votes, 4.2%

96 total votes

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