A collection of nine novelettes and stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher (150,000 words of fiction between them), all written during lockdown and including four that are original to this volume. Some of these thrilling and inventive narratives were set during the latter days of Neal's Polity universe, while others explored what came next.

Lockdown Tales II: An Introduction
Xenovore
An Alien on Crete
The Translator
Skin
Eels
The Host
Antique Battlefields
Moral Biology
Longevity Averaging