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"Shadow of the Scorpion" Is a War Novel with Sting
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calculoid
12/31/08

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Is it possible to read this book without reading the whole 8 book Polity series first? Or would I be missing out on too much back-story?
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Grey_Area
12/31/08

@calculoid: This is actually an excellent introduction to the Polity. and at half the length of Asher's usual novels you won't be committing too much time before you decide if you like is stuff or not. I'm betting you will though.
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Grey_Area
12/30/08

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Great review Annalee! I know you like monsters, have you gotten to Line of Polity yet? That's the second (well third now) in the Ian Cormac novels. That and the Skinner series have the best Giant Scary Monsters both naturally evolved and the post-human super kill-o-tron variety. And then there's Dragon, which is... well, can you imagine the Death Star made of meat?

His standalone Cowl is great too. It features a time-traveling teenage prostitute.
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Moff
12/30/08

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Novel, movie, whatever the medium—after that Dune performance, I don't want him in anything else SF.
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Grey_Area
12/30/08

@Moff: I keep reading your comment and am becoming increasingly baffled (more than I usually am). Other than Enterainment Weekly's insipid blurb for Skinner, "Dune meets Master and Commander", I can't think of any connection between Neal Asher and Dune. You're not confusing him with Kevin J. Anderson, are you?
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Moff
12/30/08

@Grey_Area: (Bad joke about the headline.)
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Grey_Area
12/30/08

@Moff: D'oh!

You are taller than Hitler. Honestly I thought Sting as Feyd was one of the less disappointing things about that movie.
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Rasselas
12/30/08

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I just started Shadow of the Scorpion. I like the Cormac books quite a bit, and Cowl even more so. Though I raise the occasional eyebrow at Asher's libertarian-British-hard-case posturing, the Polity novels provide surprisingly sympathetic and humane characterizations from time to time.
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Grey_Area
12/29/08

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The Polity books are great! Asher is edgier than Banks and he creates the best Scary Monsters.
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