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Consider Phlebas

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1987
2010
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Prologue
1 - Sorpen
2 - The Hand of God 137
3 - Clean Air Tubulence
4 - Temple of Light
State iof play: one
5 - Megaship
6 - The Eaters
Interlude to darkness
7 - A Game of Damage
8 - The Ends of Invention
State of play: two
9 - Schar's World
10 - The Command System: Batholith
State of play: three
11 - The Command System: Stations
12 - The Command System: Engines
13 - The Command System: Terminus
14 - Consider Phlebas
Appendices - the Idiran-Culture war
Reasons: the Culture
Reasons: the Idirans
The war, briefly
Dramatis personae
Epilogue
Book Cover
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1443
 Culture Series*
#1 of 10
Culture Series*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A loosly related series of science fiction books that all take place in the same universe.  Written by Iain M Banks.

1) Consider Phlebas
2) The Player of Games
3) Use of Weapons
4) The State of the Art
5) Excession
6) Inversions
7) Look to Windward
8) Matter
9) Surface Detail
10) The Hydrogen Sonata
Copyright © 1987 by Iain M. Banks
to the memory of Bill Hunt
The ship didn't even have a name.
May contain spoilers
She went for the emergency medical kit and turned up the heating in the hold, but when she got back to the stretcher, the cold, blank-faced Changer was dead.
Comments may contain spoilers
Heard about these books from a top 10 list of science-fiction so I gave this a try.
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 29-Mar-2022

Publications

 26-Mar-2008
Orbit
Paperback A
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
26-Mar-2008
Format:
Paperback A
Cover Price:
$12.99
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2010
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1507
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-316-00538-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-316-00538-8
Printing:
4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Blacksheep - Cover Design
Blacksheep  - Cover Artist
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 confliict, an individual crusade.  Deep inside a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed by 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, to actually find it, and with it their own destruction.

Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination.

PRAISE OF IAIN M. BANKS

"Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance." - William Gibson

"Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth." - New York Review of Science Fiction

"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more." - NME

"There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness." - The Times (London)
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Notes and Comments:
Fourth printing based on the number line

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 01-Jan-2011
Orbit
Trade Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-2011
Format:
Trade Paperback
Cover Price:
£9.99
Pages*:
467
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
2475
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-857-23138-4
ISBN-13:
978-1-857-23138-0
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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 confliict, an individual crusade.  Deep inside a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed by 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, to actually find it, and with it their own destruction.

Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination.

"Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance." William Gibson

"There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness." THE TIMES

"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more." NME
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Canada: $17.99

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Author(s)

Iain M Banks  
Birth: 16 Feb 1959 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
Death: 09 Jun 2013 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK

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