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 are set during the latter days of Neal's Polity universe, while others explore what comes next. Contents:Lockdown Tales II: An IntroductionXenovore                          An Alien on Crete             The Translator                 Skin                           Eels                             Th e Host                    Antique Battlefields    Moral Biology