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The Algebraist

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As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale. An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events.
-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) 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. Banks is a phenomenon…writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.
-William Gibson Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction.
-The New York Times For More from Iain M. Banks, check out: 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

About Author

Iain M. Banks is a pseudonym of Iain Banks which he used to publish his Science Fiction.Banks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. Iain Banks was

Author

Iain M. Banks

Book Series

Culture

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9780316565585

Language

English

Pages

465

Publication Date

04-01-2024

Publisher

Orbit

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