The Skinner
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| Author | Neal Asher |
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| Cover artist | Steve Rawlings |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Spatterjay sequence |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan UK |
| Released | 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 480 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-333-90364-1 |
| Followed by | The Voyage of the Sable Keech |
The Skinner is a 2002 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the first novel in the Spatterjay sequence.
The Skinner tells the story of three individuals who have journeyed to the 'line-world' (a world on the 'line', or border, of the Human Polity) of Spatterjay; a hostile mostly-aquatic world with ferocious native lifeforms.
The three primary characters are; Erlin Tazer Three Indomial, a 240-year-old doctor and xenobiologist who has come to Spatterjay hoping to find her old lover Captain Ambel and seeking a new meaning in her increasingly-boring life; Janer, an 'eternal tourist' paid by a hornet hive-mind to travel the universe and carry hornet observers to new planets and Sable Keech a thousand-year old reification (a dead body reanimated by cybernetics) seeking the last of the eight people he swore to kill for crimes against humanity during the Prador war.
