Great 👍

Very enjoyable if somewhat hard to follow because of the jumps. Some sort of transportation would make it better.

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Very unique Sci Fi fantasy

Somehow a Sci Fi story has been successfully mashed with a sea tale for this ambitious but interesting book. It was narrated well but sometimes it was a struggle to work out which ship the narrative was following. Overall though I loved it and will probably listen to it again in a year or two.

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brilliant adventure

I do like this book especially the narration. I have probably listened to this over 5 times. humans hardened by virus, viscous crab like aliens, and AI with dubious moral values. what's not to love!!!!!

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Great space opera, excellent narrator.

I like Neal Asher anyway and have most of his paper books. However William Gaminara is so good at bringing these works to life that I am buying them again on Audible.

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First class horror Sci-Fi

This is my first Asher and as far as I'm concerned he's up there now in my top three for concept SF, along with Banks and Reynolds. However I have to agree with Thomas about the seamless transitions in the narration makling the plot difficult to follow. This is a shame as otherwise the reading is excellent, and I'm still giving five because the book is that good. It's a complex plot with a large number of characters so it helps to have a printed copy to refer to if you get confused. I'll be moving on to the other two volumes in the set and then...more Asher please, Audible!

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Great book. Great narrator. Needs pauses...

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This a terrific story, well read. The world is distinctive and original. Can't wait to read the rest of the Spatterjay books.

The characters of Sniper, Ketch and the vile Frisk are superbly drawn. And it's a joy to read a high-tech drone battle that is both creative and yet seems to make visual sense.

One nitpick.
Would the producers of the audio please please please please make the pauses between scenes longer than the pauses between normal sentences! It is SO confusing – especially in a book that has cross-cut scenes with three different ships – to run the sentences on. It often takes about a paragraph to realise that the new text is not a continuation of the previous scene.

It is the norm on all audio books, so I can't understand why it was not done on this title.

Thanks.

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Brilliant book from a great author

What did you like most about The Skinner?

Intelligent, funny, gruesome

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Skinner?

I love the universe created by Neal Asher (alien nanotech, super-intelligent fatherly AIs, war machines with graveyard senses of humour, etc) and this book is a great addition to the collection with some neat ideas

What about William Gaminara’s performance did you like?

All of it, his characterisation, particularly his relaxed northern drawl for a super intelligent, quietly psychotic war drone is brilliant

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Here comes the BOOOM!

Any additional comments?

Can you please get more Neal Asher on to Audible

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Just sort of drifted over me

Couldn't associate with any of the characters nor did I have any idea who I should be concerned for. Well read and probably a good book, just didn't ever grab my attention.

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Great listen, enjoyed immensely

Great story, started a bit slow but they always do for me.
characters and creatures were described slowly throuought the book which I enjoyed (it wasn't all thrown at you at once). really enjoyed the way they merged futuristic and oldy worldy concepts together and lots of different diverse characters.

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Stunningly good

Superbly read by William Gaminara, this book is engrossing from the first word, just as it was when I read it.



I am a huge Neal Asher fan and I think he is a far better sci-fi writer than the likes of Banks and Gibson. All his books are intelligent and yet still retain a sense of adventure so often missing these days.



What would make things perfect would be to have Gridlinked and the rest of the Ian Cormac books also with William narrating them. Oh, and then the Owner books please!

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