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The Algebraist (Paperback)
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The Algebraist (Paperback)
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List price R351
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A stunning new reissue edition of The Algebraist - a space opera of
stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of
the most important and influential writers in modern science
fiction. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin
Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be
fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron
Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a
system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of
civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents
living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data
without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless
formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely
heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the
latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst
the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion
years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war
that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever
known. 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 Excession
Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen
Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a
Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original
illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in
the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography,
weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in
incredible detail.
General
Imprint: |
Orbit
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Iain M. Banks
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Dimensions: |
198 x 126 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
544 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-356-52175-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
0-356-52175-3 |
Barcode: |
9780356521756 |
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