{"product_id":"consider-phlebas-9780356521633","title":"Consider Phlebas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Banks is a phenomenon''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Gibson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e War rages across the galaxy. Billions have died, billions more are doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, face cold-blooded, brutal destruction. The Idirans fight for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles are at stake. There can be no surrender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin this cosmic conflict, a crucial battle of wits is waged. Deep within a fabled labyrinth, on a Planet of the Dead forbidden to mortals, lies a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans desperately seek it. It is 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for the Culture series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Banks''s sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics\u003c\/b\u003e'' \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e ''Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Compulsive reading'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003eThe Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso now available: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e- an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks'' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanks 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 perculiarly gnarly energy and elegance * William Gibson *\u003cbr\u003eThere is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness * THE TIMES *\u003cbr\u003ePoetic, humourous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more * NME *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733707403607,"sku":"9780356521633","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780356521633.jpg?v=1720001326","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consider-phlebas-9780356521633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}