The Skinner

The Skinner

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name = The Skinner
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image_caption = Cover for "The Skinner"
author = Neal Asher
illustrator =
cover_artist = Steve Rawlings
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Spatterjay sequence
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Macmillan UK
release_date = 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 480 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-333-90364-1
preceded_by =
followed_by = The Voyage of the Sable Keech

The Skinner is a 2002 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the first novel in the Spatterjay sequence.

"The Skinner" tells the story of three individuals who have journeyed to the 'line-world' (a world on the 'line', or border, of the Human Polity) of Spatterjay; a hostile mostly-aquatic world with ferocious native lifeforms.
The three primary characters are; Erlin Tazer Three Indomial, a 240-year-old doctor and xenobiologist who has come to Spatterjay hoping to find her old lover Captain Ambel and seeking a new meaning in her increasingly-boring life; Janer Cord Anders, an 'eternal tourist' paid by a hornet hive-mind to travel the universe and carry hornet observers to new planets and Sable Keech a thousand-year old reification (a dead body reanimated by cybernetics) seeking the last of the eight people he swore to kill for crimes against humanity during the Prador war.

External links

* [http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2002/0203/Review%20-%20The%20Skinner/Book%20Review.htm Review by John Berlyne]


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