- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Tor; Reprint edition (4 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330441531
- ISBN-13: 978-0330441537
- Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 11.4 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 260,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bloody good read but...,
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This review is from: Hilldiggers (Novel of the Polity) (Hardcover)
Deeply enjoyable, page turner with great characterisation from on of my favorite novelists, but it doesn't get 5 stars from me because I couldn't shake off my nagging concern that this book was shared just a little too many concepts with "Inversions" by Iain M Banks, which isn't that great a book. I know it's ridiculous but my "familiarity" with these narrative devices took the edge of the book for me, even though Asher treats the concepts he shares with Inversions, like the low(er) tech civilisation viewpoint, the hidden agent/observer in a more accessible manner than Banks did but I couldn't help shaking off the feeling of deja-vu as each shared concept clicked into view.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A very boring book,
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This review is from: Hilldiggers (Novel of the Polity) (Hardcover)
"Hilldiggers" is very much unlike other Asher's books. It is as if it's written by a different person. It's boring.
I love his "Skinner" and still re-read it every now and then; the "Voyage..." is almost just as good. His Cormac books are also finely written. This one, I could barely finish it. The plot is predictable, all characters are flat and the writing style is extremely boring: page after page of monotonous narrative, irrelevant details and dry dialogs. No sense of humor whatsoever, and in fact very little emotions at all. Despite his obsession with details, Asher doesn't bother to be consistent with his prior Spatterjay books (one example: in both the "Skinner" and the "Voyage..." hoopers occasionally get dunked into the deadly Spatterjay sea and, while being eaten alive by various creatures, they do keep afloat like any normal human would. In "Hilldiggers", the Hooper character McCrooger is for some reason much denser than normal people and would instantly sink to the bottom). Not to mention the idea of sending the Hooper, twice-infected by conflicting viruses, to make first contact with a paranoid and warlike civilization... Not to mention the silly "tiger-on-the-ball" Tigger drone... Or the four obviously suspicious "worm children" so easily allowed to raise to the top of the society... If you like Asher and don't want to be disappointed, stick to his earlier Spatterjay books and avoid this one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not up to his other books,
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This review is from: Hilldiggers (Novel of the Polity) (Paperback)
There's something not there in Hilldiggers that Asher's Cormac and Spatterjay books do have. I can't quite put my finger on it, but this book didn't grip me like his others.
The characters were largely not that gripping and the plot wasn't that involving even when the big action scenes got going. I also couldn't help feeling that the infodumps at the start of the book could have been done in a better way. It's still a good book, but it just doesn't get up there with Neal Asher's other works.
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