Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Parasite Blurb

Thanks Stu for the slightly altered cover here (which needs a bit sliced off the top). Will get round to a contents list at some point.

The Parasite on Kindle.

After mining complex ices deep in the Solar System, Jack Smith is concerned about his profit margin, but is it him who doesn’t want to face quarantine or something squirming inside him? The Cryon Corporation Director, Geoffry Haven, is also concerned about the bottom line and might consider Jack an expense he can no longer afford, though perhaps suitable for a starring role in a snuff movie. Meanwhile, the human and unhuman agents of World Health must investigate. Perhaps it’s time to deploy vat-grown killers and an anti-photon weapon, because the parasite is coming to Earth, and it’s hungry.

The Parasite was first published by Tanjen Ltd as an illustrated novella back in 1996. Tanjen closed down a number of years later and since then the novella has been difficult if not impossible to obtain. There are copies out there, but checking recently I haven’t seen one for below $50.00, which is a hell of a lot for something only 130 pages long and perhaps only for completists. I’ve edited it again, though I haven’t been too heavy-handed since I didn’t want to deliver something that had completely ceased to be the original. This is my first attempt at self-publishing through Amazon Kindle. I hope you all enjoy it!
– Neal Asher

“Once again, Neal Asher gives his reader a meal of such exquisite taste that you're left like Oliver, desiring more.” – Authortrek

10 comments:

Jebel Krong said...

sadly haven't got a kindle, would love to read this :(

Neal Asher said...

Copying a comment from Jay to a previous post:

Just in case people aren't aware, you don't have to own a Kindle device to buy or read this. Kindle software is available for just about every platform out there.

# Kindle for Mac
# Kindle for PC
# Kindle for iPad/iPhone
# Kindle for BlackBerry
# Kindle for Android
# Kindle for Windows Phone

If you don't have one of these, how are you reading this blog!

Jebel Krong said...

hmmm well i don't fancy reading it on my phone (too small and eye-straining) or pc but as i'm heavily thinking about the galaxy tab 10.1 when it comes out (honeycomb!), i think i'll check it out then!

Mark T Croucher said...

Oh sweet completist me...

http://mark-t-croucher.blogspot.com/

Neal Asher said...

Hah! So that was effectively an 'up yours' photo Mark?

You lost me after 'thinking about the' Jebel.

Neal Asher said...

This should cheer you up, Mark:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0952718316/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Xanares said...

kewl! That should help sell.

I borrowed the blurb, although I had to cut the middle part out. Hope that is alright.

paulb said...

I'm damn lucky to have a copy, picked it up off Ebay a year ago for £20, seems like a bargain now. Just need you to come up to Newcastle and sign it Neal :-)

Neal Asher said...

Working on Mindgames: Fool's Mate now. Of course, one day, I must see how much I can get for the twenty shrink-wrapped copies of that books I have in my loft...

Neal Asher said...

Good grief, someone moaning about the length of The Parasite. What's so hard to understand in the words 'novella' and '40,000 words'.