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{{short description|2001 science fiction novel by Neal Asher}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
 | name          = Gridlinked
 | title_orig    = 
 | translator    = 
 | image         = Gridlinked.jpg
 | image_size    = 200px
 | caption = First edition
 | author        = [[Neal Asher]]
 | illustrator   = 
 | cover_artist  = Steve Rawlings/Debut Art
 | country       = [[United Kingdom]]
 | language      = English
 | series        = Ian Cormac
 | genre         = [[Science fiction]]  
 | publisher     = [[Pan Books]]
 | release_date  = 2001
 | media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|hardback]] & [[paperback]])
 | pages         = 522
 | isbn          = 0-330-48433-8
 | oclc= 48487054
| preceded_by   = 
 | followed_by   = [[The Line of Polity]]
}}

'''''Gridlinked''''' is a [[science fiction]] novel by British writer [[Neal Asher]]. His first novel, it was published by the [[Macmillan Publishers]] imprint [[Pan Books]] in [[2001 in literature|2001]]. It contains elements of the technological inventiveness of [[hard science fiction]] with a more contemporary political plotline. The novel follows the exploits of Earth Central Security agent Ian Cormac, as he attempts to discover who or what is behind the destruction of the Runcible on a remote colony. Cormac drops an investigation into Polity separatists on Cheyne III, and takes the starship ''Hubris'' to the ruined world of Samarkand to directly oversee the investigation there. Having been directly "gridlinked" to the Polity A.I. network for too long, Cormac has been slowly losing his humanity, and takes the opportunity of this particular mission to disconnect and solve the mystery the old-fashioned way.