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Neal Asher (born 4 February 1961 in Billericay, Essex, England) is an English science fiction writer. He lives near Chelmsford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neal Asher )〕 ==Career== Both of Asher's parents are educators and science fiction fans.〔 Although he began writing speculative fiction in secondary school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing until he was 25. He worked as a machinist and machine programmer from 1979 to 1987 and as a gardener from 1979 to 1987. Asher identifies The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and other fantasy work including Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neal Asher biography )〕 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, and by Tor Books in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Skinner, Neal Asher )〕 The majority of Asher's work is set in one future history, the "Polity" universe. It encompasses many classic science fiction tropes including world-ruling artificial intelligences, androids, hive minds and aliens. His novels are characterized by fast-paced action and violent encounters. While his work is frequently epic in scope and thus nominally space opera, its graphic and aggressive tone is more akin to cyberpunk. When combined with the way that Asher's main characters are usually acting to preserve social order or improve their society (rather than disrupt a society they are estranged from), these influences could place his work in the subgenre known as post-cyberpunk.〔(Neal Asher's Dark Intelligence: Transformation Book One: A tour de force of post cyber punk space opera )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neal Asher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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