Neal Asher

Shadow of the Scorpion is a novel by Neal Asher, published by the Macmillan Publishers imprint Tor Books in 2008. The novel introduces Ian Cormac and is therefore a prequel. The novel skips between Cormac's first mission for the ECS and his upbringing as a child.

Orbus is a 2009 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the third novel in the Spatterjay sequence.