61. Banks, Iain M.
The Algebraist, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Feersum Endjinn, The Player of Games (The Culture), Look to Windward, The State Of The Art, Inversions,
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Banks, Iain M. Average customer rating: - Far from formulaic wheels within wheels... Enjoyable story, would read more by this author Not very epic
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Manufacturer: Night Shade Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: Book Description 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 civilization. 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. Customer Reviews: Far from formulaic The Algebraist isn't an easy book to summarize. It isn't even an easy book to read, though science fiction lovers will find it worth the time and effort. It is arguably great, but it is also undeniably big, set against a background so enormous in both size and history and sheer alien-ness that it makes Dune look like a one-act play. | |
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