Amph Spatterjay? Sable Keech? Polity? Neal Asher Questions and Discussion

I hate coming in midway though a series. I generally try to avoid it but I blew it this time. I picked up Neil Asher's new book The Voyage of the Sable Keech since it looked good. No sooner did I get just far enough into it to pique my interest when I realized it is part of a series. The front of the book lists 9 other Asher books but it doesn't say if they are all in the same series or not. I can guess at a few (The Line of Polity, for example since Polity is mentioned quite a bit in this book).
Are there any Asher fans that can enlighten me on the other books? And maybe give me the nickel tour of the Asherverse?

 

Wikipedia is your friend.

If nothing else, the external links should be worth a try.

- lazy