Description: 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
Title: The Algebraist
Barcode: 9780316565585
Pages: 704 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/2/2024