The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks,a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago,the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space,beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere,and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.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: 9781857234572Number of pages: 464Weight: 330 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 30 mm
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Gripping,touching and funnyThe story is vital and urgent and has a brilliantly subtle resolution...wildly enjoyableA dizzying adventureExplosive but tender
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