![]() USE OF WEAPONS The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. 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. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. The Idirans fought for their Faith the Culture for its moral right to exist. ![]() Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The AlgebraistĬONSIDER PHLEBAS The war raged across the galaxy. Praise for the Culture series 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph 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 Other books by Iain M. 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 is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. ![]()
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