THE SKINNER

Ooh, sunshine outside! If it doesn’t cloud over and start pissing down again I can get out for a walk. This weekend has been a write-off i...

It’s grey windy and wet right now at 10.20AM so perhaps I won’t bother going for a walk today. I have been walking 7 miles day on most day...

I decided a few days back that I needed to get back into reading again as a precursor to starting writing again. I think what is happening...

This would be good entry level into the Polity for new readers. Prador Moon is on Amazon now for just 99 pence!  No idea for how long it wi...

And now an update on some other stuff. I’m still struggling to take an interest in writing and reading. The most I’ve been doing is a few ...

Time for a bit of an update here about my eyes. It has now been over a month since I had refractive lens replacement and the healing pro...

I went back to Harley Street for my second operation on Friday the 13 th – not an auspicious day if you believe in that nonsense. This ti...

A number of years ago, like most people heading into their 50s, I found that reading was starting to become difficult. Mostly it was a lig...

"Beautifully paced ... does just as well as at slam-bang action scenes as at painting frightening pictures ... This is space opera ...

I particularly like this bit:  "It’s a scenario that trembles on the edge of the Singularity while still being comprehens...

BOOK REVIEW: DARK INTELLIGENCE / AUTHOR: NEAL ASHER / PUBLISHER: TOR / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW Neal Asher is one of those well known sci...

Well, I had no idea what an AMA was until a week or so ago. Apparently it is this: About Science Fiction AMAs AMA stands for "Ask ...

Hardboiled, fast-paced, mind-bending fun – Dark Intelligence  IS sci-fi Neal Asher’s latest Polity universe novel doesn’t disappoint ...

So, I turned up at the offices of Macmillan at about 12.20. I was a bit early but didn’t fancy mooching about the streets of London until ...

Nice one here from UPCOMING4.ME "Dark Intelligence" is Neal Asher's long awaited comeback to Polity universe and is ...

For this blog post I hand you over to Steve Buick: I wrote the music for Dark Intelligence with the idea that long soundscapes could...