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The Algebraist

The Algebraist

Banks, Iain M.

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 031656558X
ISBN13: 9780316565585
Publisher: Orbit
Published: Apr 2 2024
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.35
Height: 2.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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

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