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[Neal Asher]

Luckily not, but now the chancellor of the exchequer has guaranteed all the money owed, by any bank, which rather seems like license for irresponsibility.

[Jon George]

Originally Posted by Neal Asher

I need to have a look at my screenplay writing stuff and maybe have a pop at it myself.

That road can lead to madness - read Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman. Apparently it seems like you need to add an extra three hours to your normal twenty-four and have to dig a hole in the garden for your pride. Oh, and no-one knows what will be succesful. Take the money and run if you can.

[AE35Unit]

Excuse the ignorance of a newbie but

This one is a full-blown, flat-out, unabashed Space Opera, and a thriller of the first water, so don’t miss it!

sounds great to me!

Oh, could I get Asimovs in this country without going thru a difficult web order contract?

[Neal Asher]

Here’s a bit of an update on the writing and so forth:
My Czech publishers - Polaris - have offered for rights of The Voyage of the Sable Keech. Publication will be within 12 months, licence limited to 4 years.
Nightshade books are publishing Shadow of the Scorpion on May 1st this year. This is a book (longer than Prador Moon) covering some early episodes of Cormac’s life:
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember. In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment. There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like. Amidst the ruins left by war-time genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries to stay alive.
As for writing done while in Crete: I completed the above mentioned book, a 10,000 word story for Gardner Dozois’s New Space Opera II and am more than a third of the way into Orbus, a follow-up to The Voyage of the Sable Keech:
The Old Captain, Orbus – a sadist in charge of a crew of masochists – became a reformed character at the end of The Voyage of the Sable Keech and took over the captaincy of the spaceship the Gurnard. Meanwhile, the Prador Vrell, mutated by the Spatterjay virus into something powerful and dangerous, had seized control of a Prador dreadnought, killing its entire crew, and was heading back to the Prador Third Kingdom to exact vengeance on those who tried to have him killed. Both these characters are heading for ‘The Graveyard’ (mentioned in Alien Archaeology – Asimov’s) a buffer zone between the Polity and the Prador Kingdom, the perhaps into the kingdom itself. Orbus has a few unresolved issues about the Prador and about Vrell in particular …

[Lord Soth]

I love the fact that im only 2 books (3 if you count Cowl) into this series and there is soo much to come!

[Neal Asher]

You can find two of my Mason's Rats stories in the The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann.
And you can also listen to my story Acephalous Dreams on Escape Pod.

[AE35Unit]

Oh i never realised there was a volume 2! I have the 'first' one with your story Bioship in. I've not read it yet but its the second story in so its up next

[AE35Unit]

And i'm about to start reading it. Is it part of one of your universes?