Set in a lethal waterworld, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher.

The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet. And Keech is an agent of Earth who's been dead for seven hundred years - but still hunts a notorious criminal.

On Spatterjay's vast waterscapes, only the Old Captains risk the native life forms and their voracious appetites. However, they are now barely human. And somewhere out there Keech's target - the Skinner - runs wild. Keech pursues the Skinner for atrocities committed in a centuries-past war, fought with the alien Prador. But one of these Prador is fast approaching Spatterjay to exterminate witnesses to his own war crimes. And he won't spare its visitors.

Continue the science fiction adventure with The Voyage of Sable Keech and Orbus.

Is immortality worth the price?

About the Author
Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous full-length novels include Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War, Shadow of the Scorpion, Orbus and The Technician, The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, and the Transformation trilogy, Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine.

Reviews
His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that treats the reader as an adult -- The Times
Crammed full of inventive technology, organic and artificial intelligence, horrible monsters, and a thick mesh of story lines -- SFX
An exhilarating tour through one of the most ingeniously, elaborately deadly worlds since Harry Harrison invented Death World -- Locus
Hurtles along at a high-octane clip . . . In sum: a blast -- Kirkus



Book Information
ISBN 9781509868438
Author Neal Asher
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Tor
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 398g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 39mm