Neal Asher
Neal Asher
Neal Asheris an English science fiction writer. He lives near Chelmsford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 February 1961
afterlife comforting vision
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.
blur case detect editing errors escape follow head images involved plot reach sentences
When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.
distorted finger mid nail scar shove wider
The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.