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Hilldiggers (Novel of the Polity) (Paperback)

by Neal Asher (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 551 pages
  • Publisher: Tor; Reprint edition (4 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330441531
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330441537
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,994 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'If there's a more enjoyable and provocative sci-fi action saga this year, we'll be seriously surprised.'


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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A very boring book, 3 Mar 2008
By A. Rytov (Cyprus) - See all my reviews
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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.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bloody good read but..., 7 Aug 2007
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.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read, 21 Jul 2007
By P. Forsyth - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hilldiggers (Novel of the Polity) (Hardcover)
There are some authors who go on my must read list in the category "get the hardback the moment that comes out". In the sci-fi genre Neal Asher is such an author. His latest is perhaps his best. It's a real page turner, but the story is only a part of the pleasure of reading it - like all his books it is well written and also crackles with ideas and paints a bold, dramatic, detailed and engaging vision of the future that also offers additional details aplenty along the way. His universe is a tough place and pulls no punches, in this tale, which takes place in the aftermath of an interplanetary war, three groups of future-evolved humans engage in a struggle that is more than it seems.

If you have never read Neal Asher before, start now (perhaps with his first book "Gridlinked")- if you are already a fan, then rest assured he is growing in stature and becoming even more of a must-read as he goes on. More anon, I hope.
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