Talk:Neal Asher

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Cyberpunk? Postcyberpunk?

I don't suppose anyone has bothered to come up with authorities who apply these genre labels to Asher's work--? "Space opera" is almost certainly apt and verifiable, but these two might prove more of a challenge--particularly the latter, since "postcyberpunk" has yet to establish itself in the critical/reviewing vocabulary outside on-line discussion and advocates for its entry in WP. RLetson (talk) 03:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Series Order

Prador Moon and Shadow of the Scorpion are explicitly numbered #1 and #3 respectively by the publishers. Hilldiggers is just labelled "A book in the Polity Series" but is the only one published between the other two, and no other book is numbered as Polity #2. I do not have any of the short story collections, so have not (re)moved any of the short story lines to sit under the collection. --Quuux (talk) 03:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I think the series order in internal chronology is wrong. Soldier comes after the Technician and the Penny Royal books. This is clear from references in Warship, which is missing from that chronology. Stevelinton (talk) 21:54, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

While not commenting on the specific points you make, Asher has noted before (on his Facebook page) that there are errors in the internal chronology (e.g., Book A refers to events in Book B being in the past, Book B refers to Book C being in the past, Book C refers to Book A being in the past). It probably isn't possible to have a 100% clean chronology. QuiteUnusual (talk) 08:16, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

"He worked as a machinist and machine programmer from 1979 to 1987 and as a gardener from 1979 to 1987."

Is this accurate? Was he a machinist/machine programmer and a gardener simultaneously? DrSkrud (talk) 18:08, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 08:30, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

The chronology appears to be inaccurate. Either that, or there is internal inconsistency in the books. In The Warship there is reference to the events of the Transformation series. Specifically, in one of Blade's chapters, it has the following - "This lesson had been learned in recent Polity history with the trouble the forensic swarm AI the Brockle, as well as the legendary Penny Royal, had caused." Either the author was mistaken in his reddit post dating this series as circa 2550, or he messed up the timeline in writing The Warship. Jeffnonumber (talk) 10:11, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

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