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Oof, I'm partway through The Soldier, feeling like I'm missing some clues. I picked it up at the library having seen "book 1 of..." on the cover. I had no clue it was midway through a big, established setting!
Maybe I should return it and re-request after I read the earlier Polity novels...hmm...
In some of the books I've read so far, Asher does okay with backfilling some details if you skipped previous novels. But there is definitely a whole lot of backstory you might be missing on Orlandine, the Jain, the Prador, and the complexities of... everything. There are long-running plots within plots, and more than a couple conspiracies.
FWIW: this is the reading order I'm now using: https://www.readingorders.info/the-neal-ashers-polity-universe-reading-order/
Ha, I have some more books to request from the library!