Consider Phlebas
A space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from the modern master of SF
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4.3 • 120 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction.
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, to actually find it - and with it their own destruction.
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
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable, if a touch frustrating
Definitely worth a read but many unfulfilled plot threads, and feels that much of the epilogue could have been woven into the story.
Consider Phlebas
It’s been some while since I read any science fiction & this, the first book by Iain M. Banks. I very much enjoyed the book, the characters & the events portrayed. It was good to return to the genre & an excellent choice of this book that has been well written by Iain M. Banks
Wow
I really can’t conceive of the level of intellect required to write this novel. As I was reading I was conscious of the obsession of the author with his subject matter and characters. He has constructed so much back story to his characters but then exercised taste and wisdom by making the book more about the journey and including only that description that is required to not lose the reader. It feels like he’s fully in command of his editing process. This is a tremendously planned and economical read.