The Skinner - Neal Asher

The Skinner. ========== Warning only to be read by true Sci-Fi heads. There is a world called Spatterjay. It is a very inhospitable world where surviving is an art form. Those that manage to stay alive are very clever and special people, of a kind. The normal human is a thing of the past, nowadays human can be enhanced, changed, altered, bettered and sometime even dead or back from the dead. On Spatterjay is Keech, erin and Janer, all of whom have something added or are not even alive but a walking zombie. They have come here to steal, beg or ahem, borrow some of the immortality drug that is transmitted from the giant ...  Read the complete review

The Skinner. WELCOME TO SPATTERJAY ... WHERE SUDDEN DEATH IS THE NORMAL WAY OF LIFE. Spatterjay, where the seas teem with hungry monstrosities, but Spatterjay holds immortality. When its giant leeches bite out gobs of flesh, they transmit a virus that forces regrowth, hence preserving the leech food supply. The book starts with Keech, Janer, and Erin arriving on Splatterjay, where the flora and fauna make this an altogether unusual and violent planet. Keech is an earth central security monitor, hunting Hooper, the alleged founder of the planet (Jay Splatterjay Hooper) and his former gang of slave traders and heading for some ...  Read the complete review