Description
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 Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
About the Author
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.
Reviews
Gripping, touching and funny * TLS *
The story is vital and urgent and has a brilliantly subtle resolution ... wildly enjoyable * INTERZONE *
A dizzying adventure * DAILY MAIL *
Explosive but tender * SUNDAY TIMES *
Awards
Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award 1996.
Book Information
ISBN 9781857234572
Author Iain M. Banks
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Orbit
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Series Culture
Weight(grams) 330g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 30mm
