Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four, Weaponized and War Bodies. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is comprised of The Soldier, The Warship and The Human, and is also set in the Polity universe.

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 upended with the arrival of the human Polity
- and their presence ignites rebellion.
Piper was raised as a weapon against the Cyberat, implanted
with secretive hardware. When his parents are captured by
the Old Guard, the Polity offer him unexpected aid. Piper
knows the Polity want more from him, but at what cost? The
rebellion also attracts the deadly prador, placing an entire
world in peril.
As war rages across the planet, Piper must battle with the
unknown technology implanted in his bones. It may be the
Polity's answer to their relentless fight against the prador. It
could also be civilization-ending Jain tech - or something far
more extraordinary.