‘What offers six arms, a large beak, appears like a pyramid, provides more eye than you’d expect and talks nonsense? If you don’t know the response to that, after that 1) you should and 2) you haven’t been reading Neal Asher (find stage 1)’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Technology Fiction. Most of his tales are set in a galactic future-scape known as ‘The Polity’, and with The Gabble – And Additional Stories, a collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed brief tales, he will take us further in to the manifold diversities of this amazing universe.

No one will monsters better than Neal Asher, therefore be prepared to discover the lives and life styles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the strolling dead, the ocean of Death, as well as the putrefactor symbiont.