{"product_id":"consider-phlebas-1-culture","title":"Consider Phlebas #1 Culture","description":"A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for the Culture series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Consider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Player of Games\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Use of Weapons\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Excession\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Inversions\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Look to Windward\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Matter\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Surface Detail\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Hydrogen Sonata\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The State of the Art\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Other books by Iain M. Banks:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Against a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Algebraist\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Also now available: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Culture: The Drawings - 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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43582092705989,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Consider_20Phlebas.jpg?v=1716577485","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/consider-phlebas-1-culture","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}