Neal Asher

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Agent Cormac Novel

4 - Polity Agent (Oct-2006)
5 - The Line War (May-2008)
6 - The Technician (2009)
Shadow of the Scorpion (Mar-2001)
The Line of Polity (Apr-2003)
Prador Moon (May-2006)

The Owners

1 - The Departure (Feb-2013)
2 - Zero Point (May-2013)
3 - Jupiter War (May-2014)

Rise of the Jain

1 - The Soldier (May-2018)
2 - The War Ship (May-2019)
3 - The Human (May-2020)

A Spatterjay Novel

1 - The Skinner (Jun-2004)
2 - The Voyage of the Sable Keech (Oct-2006)
3 - Orbus (Oct-2009)

Transformation

1 - Dark Intelligence (Feb-2015)
2 - War Factory (May-2016)
3 - Infinity Engine (Mar-2017)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Engineer

    A novel that questions the beginnings of the human race.They moved suns and on some worlds were worshiped as gods. They had been gone from the galaxy for five million years. Then the science vessel Schrodinger's Box discovers one trapped in a sphere ...

  • Shadow of the Scorpion

    An Agent Cormac Novel

    IAN CORMAC'S EARLY YEARS! Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of loss...

  • The Line of Polity

    An Agent Cormac Novel

    Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadno...

  • Gridlinked

    GRIOLINKELI is a fast-paced science fiction adventure mixed with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of espionage. Earth Central Security agent Ian Cormac is a legend, a protector of the Polity, hundreds of worlds connected together by instantaneous tra...

  • The Skinner

    A Spatterjay Novel - 1

    Spatterjay: the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, a world where everything has teeth and is very hungry. Spatterjay can rip you to shreds in more ways than have been counted, or transform you into something no longer quite human, but nearly immort...

  • Brass Man

    From the Philip K. Dick Awardnominated author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting in this sequel to Gridlinked, which SFRevu.com called brilliant and audacious work, ch...

  • Cowl

    In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war. But some of the enemy have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time. The worst of these is the monst...

  • The Engineer Reconditioned

    Mysterious aliens ... ruthless terrorists ... androids with attitude ... genetic manipulation ... punch-ups with lasers ... giant spaceships ... what more could you want? This great collection of 10 short stories by the author of Gridlinked, The Skin...

  • Prador Moon

    An Agent Cormac Novel

    Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of th...



  • Polity Agent

    An Agent Cormac Novel - 4

    From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely...

  • The Voyage of the Sable Keech

    A Spatterjay Novel - 2

    Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known s...

  • Africa Zero

  • Hilldiggers

    During a war between two planets in the same solar systemeach occupied by adapted humanswhat is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train...

  • The Line War

    An Agent Cormac Novel - 5

    The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no...

  • The Gabble and Other Stories

    In the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Science Fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. M...

  • The Technician

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    An Agent Cormac Novel - 6

    The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada -- but it is an order that the rebels of the Tidy Squad cannot accept, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is top of their hitlist. Tombs, meanwhile, has escaped his sanatoriu...

  • Orbus

    A Spatterjay Novel - 3

    In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn't know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the past is rapidly catching up with him. His old enemy, the Prador Vrell, ha...

  • Snow in the Desert

    Now featured as part of the Love Death + Robots series on NetflixSnow in the Desert is compelling, brutal and lingers long after the final word: the perfect introduction to Neal Asher’s Polity universe fiction.In the parched, arid wastes of this fa...

  • The Departure

    The Owners - 1

    TWO WORLDS, ONE ENEMY Earth An overpopulated world is under the brutal, high-tech thumb of the Committee. Towering robot shepherds, pain-inducers, and reader guns maintain control over masses of zero-asset citizens, but for the elite this not e...



  • Zero Point

    The Owners - 2

    Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, com...

  • Jupiter War

    The Owners - 3

    War threatens to destroy Earth’s last hope in the final installment of the Owner trilogy! Alan Saul is now part human and part machine. He craves the stars, yet his human side still controls him; he can’t leave his to sister die. He must leave...

  • Dark Intelligence

    Transformation - 1

    One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed. Thorvald Spear has been brought back from the dead. Killed a century earlier by Penny Royal, an unstable AI who turne...

  • War Factory

    Transformation - 2

    A berserk AI runs rampant across galaxies in this explosive, fast-paced follow-up to Dark Intelligence, continuing the new Polity series Transformation from UK space opera master Neal Asher. Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundr...

  • Infinity Engine

    Transformation - 3

    In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play. Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who ...

  • The Soldier

    Rise of the Jain - 1

    Humanity, artificial intelligences, and monstrous aliens clash over control of deadly technology in this explosive beginning to Neal Asher’s newest Polity series. In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds ...

  • Legends 3: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell

    David Gemmell passed away in 2006, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters, epic settings, and thrilling tales. In the Legends anthologies, today's finest fantasy authors pay homage to one of fantasy fiction's greatest ever writers. Full ...

  • The War Ship

    Rise of the Jain - 2

    The dangers of ancient technology loom over the Polity in the sequel to The Soldier, Neal Asher’s latest action-packed space opera series. The haiman Orlandine, charged with safeguarding lethal Jain tech swirling inside an accretion disc located in...

  • The Human

    Rise of the Jain - 3

    In The Human, the final book in Neal Asher’s epic Rise of the Jain trilogy, an entire galaxy hangs in the balance as the ancient and powerful Jain threat emerges anew . . . A Jain warship has risen from the depths of space, emerging with a deadl...

  • Lockdown Tales



  • Jack Four

    This high-octane adventure is set in the same world as Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity universe. It's a thrilling, fast-paced standalone novel, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter.Created to dieâ€"determined to live . . .Jack Fourâ...

  • Evan Becomes Confident

    A new family moves into the woods. Does Evan have the confidence to meet these new neighbors and make a new friend? Does your child have confidence to meet new people in their life? This book will not only entertain them, it will also show them that ...

  • Love, Death + Robots The Official Anthology

    The seventeen stories that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy(R) award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fi...

  • Weaponized

    Weaponized is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher.A bright new future for humanity â€" or a dark and inescapable past.With the advent of new AI technology, Polity citizens now possess incredible lifespans. ...

  • Lockdown Tales 2

    A collection of nine novelettes and stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher (150,000 words of fiction between them), all written during lockdown and including four that are original to this volume. Some of these thrilling and inventive narrati...

  • War Bodies

    Rebellion could be their salvation -- or their doom.Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Castron, their Old Guard believe that machines should replace the physical body. But these beliefs are ...

  • World Walkers

    As a totalitarian Inspectorate tightens its grip, one man discovers the power to slip through the gaps and traverse alternate universes. World Walkers by Neal Asher is an exhilarating standalone novel set within the Owner Trilogy. Ottanger is a rebel...

  • Dark Diamond

    Dark Diamond is the first in a high-octane space opera trilogy from Neal Asher, creator of the Polity universe.Doomed to die. And die again. Captain Blite knows that someone, or something, is trying to kill him. But a device he possesses, known only...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Neal Asher has published 37 books.

The next book by Neal Asher, Dark Diamond, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Neal Asher, The Engineer, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Neal Asher has 5 series.
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