Share <Embed>

$15.34

FREE Delivery on first order. Details

Only 1 left in stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon AU.

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

Follow the Author

Neal L. Asher

The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Spatterjay 2 Paperback – 27 November 2018

by Neal Asher (Author)

155 ratings

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$9.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Paperback

"Please retry"

$15.34

—

Mass Market Paperback

"Please retry"

$14.99

—

Audio CD, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$37.97

—

Arrives: 1 - 2 Feb

Fastest delivery: Monday, 1 Feb

WILL AN ANCIENT TERROR RISE AGAIN?

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.

Frequently bought together

Total Price: $48.13

Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details

Buy the selected items together

This item:The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Spatterjay 2 by Neal Asher Paperback $15.34
Only 1 left in stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon AU.
Orbus: Spatterjay 3 by Neal Asher Paperback $18.99
Only 1 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon AU.
The Skinner: Spatterjay 1 by Neal Asher Paperback $13.80
Only 2 left in stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon AU.

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Neal Asher
217
Paperback
$13.80
Neal Asher
210
Paperback
$18.99
Neal Asher
373
Paperback
$18.99
Neal Asher
207
Paperback
$15.57
Neal Asher
804
Paperback
$18.99
Neal Asher
199
Paperback
$16.51

Start reading The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Spatterjay 2 on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Product details

Publisher : Pan (27 November 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 592 pages
ISBN-10 : 1509868445
ISBN-13 : 978-1509868445
Dimensions : 13.1 x 3.8 x 19.7 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 298,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 3,279 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
- 4,380 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction
- 4,688 in Space Fleet Science Fiction

Customer Reviews:
155 ratings

Product description

Review

As always, Asher is unparalleled at creating this unique and dangerous environment . . . as exhilarating as his previous books -- Good Book Guide

Highly entertaining and brilliantly imagined -- SF Revu

Ideas, jokes and puns splatter his pages -- Guardian

Gleeful use of technology... there is much to enjoy' -- SFFWorld

Review

A return to Neal Asher's water-bound world of <b>Spatterjay</b>, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters.

What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Customer reviews

5 star		64%
4 star		26%
3 star		7%
2 star		2%
1 star		1%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top reviews from other countries

CC Man

A Delirious Ride

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2017

Verified Purchase

Bit of a glorious mess this one. Mr Asher has built his Polity novels into a coherent and fascinating Space Opera universe over the past years, particularly in his Agent Cormac series. His world building includes truly alien aliens, nasty bad guys in the crab-like alien Prador and their ultra-Darwinian society, Golem soldiers, sentient A.I.s, augmented humans and rabid nanotech married to hard science and hard-driving plots. There's also a liberal smattering of graphic violence and a generally dark tone which is definitely appealing and quite a contrast to some of the more upbeat Space Opera out there, such as Jack Campbell's Lost World series. It owes more than a little to the Culture novels of the late Iain M Banks, although not as artfully written or gleefully subversive as that author. Mr Asher's novels tend towards the weighty in terms of length and this one tips the scales at a generous 584 pages. And every page is filled with stuff - reanimated humans, intelligent ship sails, huge wooden sailing ships with atomic engines, cynical war drones, dog-eat-dog alien wildlife, hornet hive-minds. It's a delirious mixture bordering on incoherent as you find yourself struggling to keep up with all the characters, human and otherwise, which teem throughout the book. The viewpoint continually jumps from character to character and while the ideas are flying in every direction it is all a bit undisciplined. It could probably have done with some editing to pare down the book and its multifarious plotlines to a more manageable scale. The book is the final one rounding out a series based on the alien world of Spatterjay, which has a hugely carnivorous flora and fauna, all of them infected with a virus that causes massive mutations in the wildlife, including the humans it infects. These infected humans are the nearly indestructible and long-lived Old Captains, leading protagonists in this novel. The basic plot follows the attempt of human Taylor Bloc and his followers to set up a base for their revival cult on Spatterjay. Bloc and his followers are dead, yet their bodies are kept from decay by nanotech, micro-motors, memory crystals and other high tech implants. Their aim is to achieve new life, possibly with the help of the Spatterjay virus. It's all a breathtaking ride, including a vengeful whelk - not the Earth one; this beastie is 20 metres tall and weighs 100 tons - and a renegade Prador warship. Believe me, you have to read the novel to make sense of the description and it definitely helps if you have read the previous Spatterjay novels. All in all not the best of Mr Asher's work but readable none the less.

Fleecy Moss

All aboard the Sable Keech for a fabulous ride.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2019

Verified Purchase

Having loved The Skinner, book one in the Spatterjay series, and having survived the vicious lifeforms of that planet, I immediately moved into book two and felt as though I'd never left. Reacquainting myself with old characters whilst meeting quite a few new ones, the book shot off in a very logical continuation of the original and I adored it.

Full of action, great pace, and wonderfully comic moments, Asher also delves into discussion of the metaphysical re the two Golems and allows it to form the developing spine of the tale.

A fine second book that sets the scene for an even better third (and I'm only a hundred pages into it).

Fleecy Moss, author of the Folio 55 SciFi fantasy series (writing as Nia Sinjorina), End of a Girl, Undon , and 4659 now available on Amazon.

Shaun H

Not enough of my favourite characters from the first book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2012

Verified Purchase

Ten years ago Sable Keech was one of the walking dead. A reification; a walking corpse with high tech embalming fluid running through his veins, animated by servo motors at his joints, and controlled by a copy of his brain running on a memory crystal. That was until by a combination of nanotechnology, makeshift medical care and a large degree of pure luck he was resurrected back to real life.

Now, ten years on, a whole cult/religion has been founded around the events that lead to his resurrection and an enterprising reification named Bloc is building a huge one kilometre long sailing ship to take the faithful and those willing to pay, on a journey to emulate Keech's voyage to a new life.

I really enjoyed book one of the Spatterjay series, but to be honest this second book just didn't hit the spot for me. The pace was very slow right from the beginning, which is not too surprising as most of the main character are shambling walking dead. My favourite characters from the first book were the Artificial Intelligences controlling the drones and the mind of the Warden but these characters were relegated mainly to minor supporting roles with only brief appearances. I also felt like there was not enough original material in this book and it felt very much like a rehash of book one. There were some high points, especially any scene featuring Sniper - a cantankerous old war drone with a serious attitude problem, but there were not enough of these in my opinion.

Overall: 3 stars - I would actually like to give it 3.5 stars as 3 feels a little too harsh, but 4 feels too generous. It is not a terrible book by any means and I will definitely be reading more by Neal Asher, but this book has not encouraged me to want to read the next in this particular series.

One person found this helpful

Usul

Don't fall into the sea!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2014

Verified Purchase

Another weird and wonderful tale from the vicious planet of the aptly named Spatterjay from Neal Asher. Readers should start with the earlier volume The Skinner of which this is a continuation. A more hostile place you could not dream of, so much so this could arguably be put in the Horror section of books. Set in the wider Polity universe Spatterjay is a Polity protectorate governed by one of the ruling AI's and the Polity's old foe the monstrous Prador features heavily. The planet's creatures, a set of monstrous and deadly denizens are the background on which another fantastic tale which if described would sound too far-fetched but it all works beautifully and this and indeed all Asher's Polity and Agent Cormac novels are highly recommended.

Dancer

Fun, but not gripping

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2008

Verified Purchase

This is not a bad book, but it is not an especially good one either. Asher has written some outstanding stuff, but I'm afraid that The Voyage just doesn't stand up to The Skinner or Gridlinked.

By placing the action in the same setting with the same characters, the book comes off as a bit twee. The eponymous Sable Keech has easily enough character to act as the principle in another work, but it would need to be away from Splatterjay to avoid retreading old ground.

Asher shows some real flare when he writes of Sniper, but allot of the action with the Hoopers was just too familiar to be really gripping.

It is the curse of a great author to be held to extremely demanding standards, but at the end of the day it would be another of his books that I would recommend to a friend, or to you.

3 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Follow the Author

Similar authors to follow

The Voyage of the Sable Keech: Spatterjay 2 Paperback – 27 November 2018

Frequently bought together

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Product details

Product description

Review

Review

Book Description

From the Publisher

About the Author

What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?

Customer reviews

Review this product

Top reviews from Australia

Top reviews from other countries