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Gridlinked
Gridlinked is Neal Asher's first novel, published by the Macmillan Publishers imprint Pan Books in 2001. It contains elements of the technological inventiveness of hard science-fiction with a more contemporary political plotline. The novel follows the exploits of Earth Central Security agent Ian Cormac, as he attempts to discover who or what is behind the destruction of the Runcible on a remote colony. Cormac drops an investigation into Polity separatists on Cheyne III, and takes the starship "Hubris" to the ruined world of Samarkand to directly oversee
series as important early creative influences.
Asher published his first short story in 1989. In 2000 he was offered a three-book contract by Pan Macmillan, and his first full length novel "Gridlinked" was published in 2001. This was the first in a series of novels made up of "Gridlinked", "The Line of Polity", "Brass Man", "Polity Agent", and "Line War".
Asher is published by Tor, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, in the UK