The Voyage of the Sable Keech 
asked by tacos on November 8, 2006 11:07 AM
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I am a confirmed Neal Asher book junkie, an easy enough fate to fall into since his novels are more addictive than crack cocaine. Every single one of them is a brilliant, enjoyable, thought-provoking and flat out fun science fiction romp which will leave you trembling like a junkie with delirium tremens waiting for the next installment. I crave his novels so much I can't wait for them to be released in the US, I go ahead pay the outrageous cost to purchase them from Amazon.co.uk (and count every penny as money well spent.) Since Mr. Asher is British his books are released there about six months ahead of the US release date.
Perhaps my favorite Asher novel up to now, although that is very hard to call, is The Skinner. The Voyage of the Sable Keech is every bit as good as The Skinner. I am not going to ruin the story by giving away the plot details but we pick up where we left off with The Skinner and get to boisterously romp around with all of our favorite characters from that novel once again. Well, the ones that survived anyway!!! This is a fantastic follow-up and a thoroughly enjoyable read replete with the same trademark action, mind-bending exploration of technology, and amazing characterization that those of us fortunate to have read his earlier work have come to expect. I highly encourage you to splurge, have Mastercard convert your dollars to pounds and order this directly from the UK. You won't be disappointed! Now, how long until I can get another fix?
Perhaps my favorite Asher novel up to now, although that is very hard to call, is The Skinner. The Voyage of the Sable Keech is every bit as good as The Skinner. I am not going to ruin the story by giving away the plot details but we pick up where we left off with The Skinner and get to boisterously romp around with all of our favorite characters from that novel once again. Well, the ones that survived anyway!!! This is a fantastic follow-up and a thoroughly enjoyable read replete with the same trademark action, mind-bending exploration of technology, and amazing characterization that those of us fortunate to have read his earlier work have come to expect. I highly encourage you to splurge, have Mastercard convert your dollars to pounds and order this directly from the UK. You won't be disappointed! Now, how long until I can get another fix?
reviewed by librarian on November 15, 2006 8:27 PM
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If you enjoyed The Skinner, you will love this latest excursion to the insanely dangerous waterworld of Spatterjay. I really had a good time with this book! It has all the elements I like about Asher's Polity stories, including his sheer creative exuberance. Viruses, hive minds, voracious monsters, exotic weapons, giant whelks, this has it all! Complexly plotted, fast-moving, bursting with action, swarming with extremely nasty alien life forms and featuring some ace futuristic military tech, this is a novel which will immensely please Asher's existing fans and will get him plenty of new fans too. Acquire this book now!
reviewed by astrofizzy on November 17, 2006 2:48 AM
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I can't quite lay my finger on what exactly makes Mr. Asher's stuff flow so smoothly, or how he seems to create such a fantastic futuristic but dead real seeming world.
Voyage, despite my promises to read it slowly, is one of those books that just swiftly changes your priorities for you. Neal has mastered the art of switching focus between plots and sub-plots, main characters and minor to such a degree, that he switches plots at the exact right moment to hold up momentum for the plot being switched from and cleanly into the next.
it's art.
voyage comes as a follow up to the classic "the skinner" which i suggest you read first, though, he does a brilliant job of making the book stand on it's on, with just the right amount of back story.
the world is Spatterjay, where a virus left to it's own devices for untold time, has produced immortality in it's hosts.
combine this with a dark past with human slave trade with an alien race known as Prador, and mysterious Hive minds jockeying for possession of Sprine, the one substance known to kill the Spatterjay virus, and it's host, and it virtual chaos, as a ship full of "reifs" attempt to re-create the voyage of Sable Keech, the own known reif to successfully come back from the dead.
seems like this would be to busy of a storyline, but asher weaves it together in a style i personally have grown to love.
five stars isn't enough.
Voyage, despite my promises to read it slowly, is one of those books that just swiftly changes your priorities for you. Neal has mastered the art of switching focus between plots and sub-plots, main characters and minor to such a degree, that he switches plots at the exact right moment to hold up momentum for the plot being switched from and cleanly into the next.
it's art.
voyage comes as a follow up to the classic "the skinner" which i suggest you read first, though, he does a brilliant job of making the book stand on it's on, with just the right amount of back story.
the world is Spatterjay, where a virus left to it's own devices for untold time, has produced immortality in it's hosts.
combine this with a dark past with human slave trade with an alien race known as Prador, and mysterious Hive minds jockeying for possession of Sprine, the one substance known to kill the Spatterjay virus, and it's host, and it virtual chaos, as a ship full of "reifs" attempt to re-create the voyage of Sable Keech, the own known reif to successfully come back from the dead.
seems like this would be to busy of a storyline, but asher weaves it together in a style i personally have grown to love.
five stars isn't enough.
reviewed by flow on November 25, 2006 10:54 AM
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I am a confirmed Neal Asher book junkie, an easy enough fate to fall into since his novels are more addictive than crack cocaine. Every single one of them is a brilliant, enjoyable, thought-provoking and flat out fun science fiction romp which will leave you trembling like a junkie with delirium tremens waiting for the next installment. I crave his novels so much I can't wait for them to be released in the US, I go ahead pay the outrageous cost to purchase them from Amazon.co.uk (and count every penny as money well spent.) Since Mr. Asher is British his books are released there about six months ahead of the US release date.
Perhaps my favorite Asher novel up to now, although that is very hard to call, is The Skinner. The Voyage of the Sable Keech is every bit as good as The Skinner. I am not going to ruin the story by giving away the plot details but we pick up where we left off with The Skinner and get to boisterously romp around with all of our favorite characters from that novel once again. Well, the ones that survived anyway!!! This is a fantastic follow-up and a thoroughly enjoyable read replete with the same trademark action, mind-bending exploration of technology, and amazing characterization that those of us fortunate to have read his earlier work have come to expect. I highly encourage you to splurge, have Mastercard convert your dollars to pounds and order this directly from the UK. You won't be disappointed! Now, how long until I can get another fix?
Perhaps my favorite Asher novel up to now, although that is very hard to call, is The Skinner. The Voyage of the Sable Keech is every bit as good as The Skinner. I am not going to ruin the story by giving away the plot details but we pick up where we left off with The Skinner and get to boisterously romp around with all of our favorite characters from that novel once again. Well, the ones that survived anyway!!! This is a fantastic follow-up and a thoroughly enjoyable read replete with the same trademark action, mind-bending exploration of technology, and amazing characterization that those of us fortunate to have read his earlier work have come to expect. I highly encourage you to splurge, have Mastercard convert your dollars to pounds and order this directly from the UK. You won't be disappointed! Now, how long until I can get another fix?
reviewed by bestseller on November 29, 2006 12:22 PM