Surface Detail (Culture 9)

by IainM.Banks (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $4.38

  The ninth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

  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. 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.

  It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder.

  And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.

  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. Banks:
  Against a Dark Background
  Feersum Endjinn
  The Algebraist

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $7.88

  It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. 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. 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. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. 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. 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. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the centre of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.