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)

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