![]() ![]() The macabre theme is taken a step further in Garp and Geronamid with the re-animation of the dead as the reified, and a play on the legend of the ghosts of murder victims who seek out their killer for revenge, with drug addiction and the horrific methods used to increase the drugs production likely to leave you squirming. Putrefactors follows a bounty hunter on the trail of his lawbreaking quarry and left me with a suitably horrified shudder at its gruesome revelations. Softly Spoke The Gabbleduck starts off as a simple enough trophy hunt that rapidly takes a couple of interesting twists, but I was left a little confused by the final one until reading some of the later stories. The ten stories cover a range of themes and characters, though I found I had less empathy with some than others. I had no trouble at all in understanding the concepts or visualising his worlds, and each story is crisp, capable of standing alone whether you are familiar with his previous work or not. ![]() I choose this collection of short stories in the hope of a good introduction to the Polity universe, and I wasn't disappointed. First I have to confess that not only am I new to reviewing, but that I am also new to reading Neal Asher. ![]()
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