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 TelegraphThe 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 SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
- ISBN10 1857233948
- ISBN13 9781857233940
- Publish Date 13 June 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Orbit
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 451
- Language English