For nearly 25 years British science fiction author Neal Asher has written stories set in a fictional universe he calls Polity.
But while his newest installment Dark Diamond (paperback, Kindle) is the 21st installment of this series, in the following email interview — in which he also discusses what inspired and influenced this new novel — he explains why this story may serve as a good entry point for this sci-fi saga.
Like fantasy writer R.A. Salvatore and other authors, sci-fi writer Neal Asher has set many of his novels in the same fictional universe, one that encompasses the Splatterjay trilogy [The Skinner, The Voyage Of The Sable Keech, and Orbus], hisAgent Cormac tetralogy [Gridlinked, The Line Of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War], and the three books in his Transformation series [Dark Intelligence, War Factory, and Infinite Engine]. In the following email interview, he discusses The Soldier (hardcover, Kindle), the first book in a new connected trilogy he’s calling Rise Of The Jain.