{"product_id":"matter-8-culture-series","title":"Matter #8 Culture Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe eighth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for the Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Compulsive reading'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003e The Player of Games\u003cbr\u003e Use of Weapons\u003cbr\u003e The State of the Art\u003cbr\u003e Excession\u003cbr\u003e Inversions\u003cbr\u003e Look to Windward\u003cbr\u003e Matter\u003cbr\u003e Surface Detail\u003cbr\u003e The Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Other books by Iain M. Banks\u003cb\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003e The Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43667609780421,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Matter_3cdcafd1-8d31-46a2-bab5-b001b4d3848c.jpg?v=1717546955","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/matter-8-culture-series","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}