«In Cowl Neal Asher seems to be doing to the time-travel adventure what he has been doing to space opera and planetary romance: to pump it full of performance-enhancing substances and send it crashing through a gigantically expanded version of its traditional milieu, exploding the big sets and sending body parts flying in all directions.»

Locus

«Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain»

John Scalzi on <i>The Soldier</i>

«The Soldier provides everything we demand from Asher: a beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven»

Peter F. Hamilton on <i>The Soldier</i>

«The whole impressive, ingenious enterprise hurtles along at a high-octane clip while swinging with nonchalant abandon between horror and comedy: call it black slapstick. In sum: a blast»

Kirkus on The Skinner

«His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that treats the reader as an adult rather than an educationally subnormal adolescent»

The Times on The Skinner