Neal Asher Reading Order

5 books (2001–2008)

Start with Gridlinked, the first of 5 books in the Agent Cormac series.

#	Title
1	Gridlinked 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Line Of Polity 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Brass Man 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Polity Agent 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Line War 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

20 books (2003–2025)

Start with Year's Best SF 8, the first of 19 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Space Pirates 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Subterfuge 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Conflicts 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Mammoth Book of SF Wars 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	In Space No One Can Hear You Scream 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Story Behind the Book 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Total Conflict 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Galactic Empires 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Infinite Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	London Centric 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Permutations: A Well World Anthology 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1998–2023)

Start with The Engineer, the first of 7 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Engineer 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Mason's Rats 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conflicts(With: Eric Brown,Keith Brooke) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Owning the Future 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Lockdown Tales 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Fantastical 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Lockdown Tales 2 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2025–2025)

1 book (2020–2020)

2 books (2021–2022)

Start with Jack Four and read in order.

#	Title
1	Jack Four 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Weaponized 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2014–2014)

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with The Departure and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Departure 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Zero Point 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Jupiter War 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1998–2008)

Start with The Engineer Reconditioned and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Engineer Reconditioned 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Runcible Tales 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Gabble And Other Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2006–2023)

Start with Prador Moon, the first of 5 books in the Polity Universe series.

#	Title
1	Prador Moon 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Hilldiggers 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Shadow of the Scorpion 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Technician 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	War Bodies 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2018–2020)

Start with The Soldier and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Soldier 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Warship 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Human 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1994–2013)

Start with Africa Zero, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Africa Zero 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Snow in the Desert 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Parasite 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Mindgames: Fool's Mate 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2002–2009)

Start with The Skinner and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Skinner 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Voyage of the Sable Keech 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Orbus 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2004–2024)

Start with Cowl and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cowl 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Jenny Trapdoor 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	World Walkers 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2026–2026)

3 books (2015–2017)

Start with Dark Intelligence and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dark Intelligence 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	War Factory 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Infinity Engine 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible