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The Voyage of the Sable Keech

By: Neal Asher
Narrated by: William Gaminara
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The Voyage of the Sable Keech returns to Neal Asher's water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters.

Taylor Bloc is a walking dead man, determined to live again. He also wants adulation, power and control – and will do anything to get them. Of Bloc’s kind, Sable Keech alone has achieved resurrection. So Bloc will retrace Keech’s journey across Spatterjay’s wild seas, with his crew of killers, to grasp his secret.

Erlin wanted solitude to understand her eternal life, until an attack prompts her own strange journey. And Janer returns, with forbidden weaponry. He must stop an agent controlled by a hive mind with a death fixation. But a wider crisis will overshadow personal missions. In the deeps, an alien Prador is stirring, horribly transformed by Spatterjay’s immortality virus. And an enemy ship would destroy the planet to keep this secret.

Continue the science fiction adventure series with Orbus, or start at the beginning with The Skinner.

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Critic reviews

Close to the violence of splatterpunk, and ideas, jokes and puns splatter his pages.
As always, Asher is unparalleled at creating this unique and dangerous environment . . . as exhilarating as his previous books.
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Just needs some pauses as the story changes to different characters perspectives. Not many books have you rooting for a giant welk. Still enjoying sniper

Good story.

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Where does The Voyage of Sable Keech rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

up amongst the highest

What other book might you compare The Voyage of Sable Keech to, and why?

It can only compare with the other books in the Spatterjay series.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The taking over of the Sable Keech; shades of Queeg.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Huge enjoyment at the completeness to the world in which it is set.

Any additional comments?

Answering questions like this is not a review but on the offfchance I may win a sound system I can live with it

An excellent sequel

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Along with The Skinner this has long been one of my favourite scifi books. A very satisfying mix of comedy and horror and the Hoopers themselves are some of the best characters around. The story skips asking and it’s all great fun. Some of the narrators voice choices are a little hard to understand “Welsh” androids for one but why not?

Hoopers

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One of Ashers better stories, with a dry wit missing in some of his most recent books.
William Gaminaras narration is very good , and while his choice of a yorkshire accent for a war drone seems odd on the surface, it works perfectly.
The flaw is there arent always pauses in between scene changes.
Otherwise this is one of my favourite audiobooks (and i have a great many)

Good story, excellent characterisation by the narrator

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Good narration and a very exciting story. Most of the main characters from the Skinner are here with some great plot twists. I am looking forward to the final volume of the trilogy Orbus

A great follow up to the Skinner

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