Neal Asher (born February 4, 1961 in Billericay, Essex,
England) is an English science fiction writer. Both his parents are educators
and science fiction fans. Although he began writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
in secondary school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing till he was 25. He
worked as a machinist and machine programmer from 1979 to 1987 and as a
gardener from 1979 to 1987. He published his first short story in 1989. His
novel Gridlinked was published in 2001, the first in a series of novels made up
of Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War.
The majority of Asher's novels and most of his short fiction
are all set within one future history, known as the "Polity"
universe. The Polity encompasses many classic science fiction tropes including
world-ruling artificial intelligences, androids, hive minds and aliens. His
novels are characterized by fast paced action and violent encounters. While his
work is frequently epic in scope and thus nominally space opera, its graphic
and aggressive tone is more akin to cyberpunk. When combined with the way that
Asher's main characters are usually acting to preserve social order or improve
their society (rather than disrupt a society they are estranged from), these
influences could place his work in the subgenre known as postcyberpunk.
List of books included
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