Author: Neal Asher

Length: short story

First Publication: Adventure Anthology, 2005

What the Story is About: Note: explicit violence

“AI Geronamid has need of a subject for a scientific trial. This trial may kill you, in which case it would be considered completion of sentence. Should you survive, all charges against you will be dropped.”

“And the nature of this trial?”

“Cephalic implantation of Csorian node.”

Note: Currently only available in audio format.

Author: Neal Asher

Length: short story

First Publication: The Agony Column, 2003

What the Story is About: From the story:

A little tampering with code made it possible to have, instead of a Sunday joint, a prawn of equivalent size that you carved into slices. You could buy crab meat for a few euros a kilogram because crabs could be grown to huge size. For an Australian land crab, which had been intelligent and dangerous when it had been merely the size of a dinner plate, people found other uses, especially when it was grown to the size of Rottweiler.

Author: Neal Asher

Length: novelette

First Publication: Threads #2 , 1994

What the Story is About: “Another murder-louse made its scuttling charge, its trilobite body holding level as a pointer on me as its multitude of legs found purchase on the weed-slippery rocks. ”