The algebraist
Banks, Iain, 1954-20132023
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The year is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but 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 Nasqeron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. 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. Abruptly 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, one 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.
Main title:
The algebraist / Iain M. Banks.
Author:
Banks, Iain, 1954-2013, author
Imprint:
London : Orbit, 2023.
Collation:
544 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Orbit, 2004.
ISBN:
9780356521756 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2642822
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