There were several assemblies of shorter material, the most substantial of these being The Engineer (coll of linked stories 1999), in which various human explorers experience intimately a universe exceedingly prolific of life in every shape this universe serves as the background for the Human Polity sequence set in a galaxy-wide imperium governed by AIs, which includes many further novels as well as The Engineer and Runcible Tales: Tales of the Far, Far Distant Future, So Convincingly Told, The Reader Will Wonder Why It Isn't Happening Now (coll 1999 chap) – a "runcible" being an interstellar Matter Transmission device which Asher uses throughout to make his farflung universe easily storyable – includes a similar set of stories. (1961- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Another England" for Back Brain Recluse #14 in Autumn 1989, and who published stories with some frequency in the 1990s, though without gaining much attention during this period, he published several individual volumes, most of them short, including Mindgames: Fool's Mate ( 1992) and The Parasite ( 1996 chap).
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