
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
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"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:
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The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Product Details
Publisher | Orbit |
Publish Date | April 02, 2024 |
Pages | 704 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780316565585 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.7 X 2.0 inches | 1.4 pounds |
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Reviews
"An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events."
--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Algebraist"[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you've never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror's fingers." --scifi.com
"Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance."--William Gibson
"Banks never lets up in a dizzying array of characters, mind-bending ideas, and dazzling action."--Booklist
"Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in lightyears, tragedies in gigadeaths."--Time
"Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction."--The New York Times
"Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth."--New York Review of Science Fiction
"Nobody does it better."--Times (UK)
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