- EAN13
- 9780316565615
- Éditeur
- Orbit UK
- Date de publication
- 02/04/2024
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- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9780316565615
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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
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
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