Bibliograph

Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

Type

Label

Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

Language

eng

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Consider Phlebas

Oclc number

154698588

Responsibility statement

Iain M. Banks

Series statement

A Culture novel, bk. 1

Summary

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 conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to 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, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Sorpen -- Hand of God 137 -- Clear air turbulence -- Temple Of Light: -- State Of Play: One -- Megaship -- Eaters: -- Interlude in darkness -- Game of damage -- Ends Of Invention: -- State of Play: Two -- Schar's world -- Command System: Batholith: -- State OF Play: Three -- Command System: Stations -- Command System: Engines -- Command System: Terminus -- Consider Phlebas -- Appendices: Idiran-Culture War: -- Reasons: Culture -- Reasons: Idirans -- War, briefly -- Dramatis personae -- Epilogue

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