Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination,from a modern master of science fiction. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died,billions more were doomed. Moons,planets,the very stars themselves,faced destruction,cold-blooded,brutal,and worse,random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.Within the cosmic conflict,an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world,a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals,lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza,the Changer,and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries,human and machine,to actually find it - and with it their own destruction.Praise for the Culture series'Epic in scope,ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future'Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'Scotsman'Compulsive reading'Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781857231380Number of pages: 480Weight: 326 gDimensions: 195 x 129 x 32 mm
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Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful,fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels,he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a perculiarly gnarly energy and eleganceThere is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keennessPoetic,humourous,baffling,terrifying,sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more
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