- Title:
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The Skinner (MP3)
- Series:
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Spatterjay #1
- Written by:
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Neal Asher
- Read by:
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William Gaminara
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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15 hours 58 minutes
- MP3 size:
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550 MB
- Published:
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April 28 2019
- Available Date:
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April 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529024241
- Genres:
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Fiction; Science Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Three visitors arrive on one of the most unique (and deadly) worlds science fiction has ever seen, in the start of a classic Polity series from Neal Asher.
Welcome to Spatterjay ... where sudden death is the normal way of life.
On the remote planet Spatterjay arrive three travellers: Janer, acting as the eyes of a hornet Hive-mind; Erlin, a xenobiologist searching for an ancient sea captain; and Sable Keech, who himself has been dead for 700 years. On this ocean world, visitors are rare, and the native hoopers – humans infected with a local virus that renders them nearly invincible, though at monstrous cost – patrol the open seas, risking the voracious appetites of the planet's deadly wildlife.
Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop, the last member of a band of pirates, whose many years spent on the planet have transformed him into a grotesque monster. And a vicious alien prador is about to pay Spatterjay a visit as well, intent on extermination. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life ... and death.
'Asher is a modern master of sci-fi.'
Starburst
'Dune meets Master and Commander.'
Entertainment Weekly
'An exhilarating tour through one of the most ingeniously, elaborately deadly worlds since Harry Harrison invented Deathworld.'
Locus