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The Skinner

The Spatterjay Series: Book 1

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The Skinner

By: Neal Asher
Narrated by: William Gaminara
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Set in a lethal waterworld where sudden death is a way of life, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher.

The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet. And Keech is an agent of Earth who’s been dead for seven hundred years – but still hunts a notorious criminal.

On Spatterjay’s vast waterscapes, only the Old Captains risk the native life forms and their voracious appetites. However, they are now barely human. And somewhere out there Keech’s target – the Skinner – runs wild. Keech pursues the Skinner for atrocities committed in a centuries-past war, fought with the alien Prador. But one of these Prador is fast approaching Spatterjay to exterminate witnesses to his own war crimes. And he won’t spare its visitors.

Continue the science fiction adventure with The Voyage of Sable Keech and Orbus.

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His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that treats the reader as an adult (The Times)
Crammed full of inventive technology, organic and artificial intelligence, horrible monsters, and a thick mesh of story lines (SFX)
An exhilarating tour through one of the most ingeniously, elaborately deadly worlds since Harry Harrison invented Death World (Locus)
Hurtles along at a high-octane clip . . . In sum: a blast (Kirkus)
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L'histoire est bonne, le narrateur est bon, mais il manque des pauses entre les différents paragraphes du livre. En l'état, il est très difficile de comprendre que l'histoire vient de passer d'un personnage à un autre, d'une trame à une autre. Même une petite pause d'une ou deux secondes ferait l'affaire, pour marquer la transition. Le résultat c'est que souvent je perd le fil, et quand je comprends qu'on vient de changer de scène il faut sue je recule de 30 secondes pour réécouter un morceau, ce qui est pénible quand je n'ai pas les mains libres (jardinage, conduite, vélo avec le téléphone dans un sac...)

Bon livre, narrateur OK, production médiocre

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