[Andols]

I will be adding your work to my stack also mr. asher. This thread was helpful.

Now if I could find any of it locally...

[biodroid]

From all the good reviews I am now aching to read a Neal Asher novel but cannot get a hold of Gridlinked, I know the book stores by us carry The Skinner. I would like to know do I need to read Gridlinked before I read The Skinner? Is it similar to Peter F Hamilton's Greg Mandel series? This is what wikipedia says the reading is:
Ian Cormac Series
Gridlinked (2001)
The Line of Polity (2003)
Brass Man (2005)
Polity Agent (2006)
Line War (2008)
Spatterjay Series
The Skinner (2002)
The Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006)
A Novel of the Polity Series
Prador Moon (2006)
Hilldiggers (2007)
Shadow of the Scorpion (2008)

Are they all follow ons of each other and it is then recommended to read them in this particular order or not? Please help thanks!!

[chitman13]

You'll need to read the Cormac series in order, but you can read the rest withour reading those (I have). The Skinner is the best place to start IMO, so give it a go!

[nealasher]

I hope this helps:

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[heliosclem]

I started with Gridlinked then read Prador Moon and Shadow of a Scorpion so I could read things chronologically, but now I'm reading Line of Polity and it's made several references (Jain tech, The Makers, the character Mika) that I don't recognize. Are they things I should have read in other works that I missed or are they things that will be fleshed out in later?

[nealasher]

heliosclem, the Makers (or a Maker) and the character Mika were in Gridlinked. Jain Tech was just introduced in The Line of Polity.

[pox]

Julian May's Many Coloured Land

ah no way... It's rare enough I find someone who's even read all those. Ace.

Thanks for all your books btw. They've filled out a good portion of this year very nicely.

[nealasher]

My pleasure!