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I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. Now I write science fiction books, and am slowly getting over the feeling that someone is going to find me out, and can call myself a writer without wincing and ducking my head. As professions go, I prefer this one: I don’t have to clock-in, change my clothes after work, nor scrub sensitive parts of my body with detergent. I think I’ll hang around.

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	Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1, Polity Universe #3) 3.96 avg rating — 12,490 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 7,781 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brass Man (Agent Cormac, #3) 4.15 avg rating — 7,571 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prador Moon (Polity Universe, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 7,813 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skinner (Spatterjay, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 6,660 ratings — published 2002 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4) 4.23 avg rating — 6,532 ratings — published 2006 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Intelligence (Transformation, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 6,728 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Line War (Agent Cormac, #5) 4.29 avg rating — 6,214 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow of the Scorpion (Polity Universe #2) 4.05 avg rating — 4,678 ratings — published 2008 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Departure (Owner Trilogy, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 4,820 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’ve gone over a few times the gradual collapse in my pleasure of reading. I’ve blamed the fact that I spend so much of my time writing and editing that I cannot approach a book without my editing head pointing out continuity errors or simply saying, ‘Well, I wouldn’t have done that’. I’ve blamed the psychological outfall of watching my wife die of bowel cancer. I’ve blamed the internet and easy s

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“And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.”
― Neal Asher, The Departure

tags: freedom, freedom-fighter, revolution, revolutionary

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“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

tags: atheism, philosophical

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“Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.”
― Neal Asher, The Skinner

tags: human-ness

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APRIL SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the April 2014 SF Book-of-the-month.

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

15 votes, 20.5%

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

15 votes, 20.5%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

14 votes, 19.2%

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

7 votes, 9.6%

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

6 votes, 8.2%

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

5 votes, 6.8%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

5 votes, 6.8%

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

4 votes, 5.5%

A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

2 votes, 2.7%

73 total votes

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