| Consider Phlebas: A Science Fiction Novel |  | Author: Iain M. Banks
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Category: Book
Buy Used: $29.95
Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 694097
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 471
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0312017529
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312017521
ASIN: 0312017529
Publication Date: May 1988
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Condition: Book and dust jacket are good. There is some staining on page edges ( visible when book is closed)
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"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail
"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLS
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
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A good intro to the Culture series December 29, 2008
F. Miguel Patino
It certainly is the first of the series, and you can tell both at the style and story. It is worth reading, especially if you have read other books on the culture or you are planing to.
 Good Read September 12, 2008
C. Coon (Oregon)
This is the beginnings of great scifi series. I will recommend this book to anyone who likes the space opera scifi. It was an interesting story, and made me want more when it was done.
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