Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. (eight), Inversions (nine) and Surface Detail (10) all have their own. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality. Our first image of Iain M Banks’s Culture universe is a man drowning in sewage: a stark precedent for what was to come. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. Banks new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.īenevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. Banks Buy a used copy of Surface Detail book by Iain M.

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Banks' Culture novels, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.Īnd it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Surface Detail Iain Banks Orbit, 2011 - Fiction - 627 pages 44 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified SCIENCE FICTION.

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