{"product_id":"surface-detail-9-culture","title":"Surface Detail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Banks is a phenomenon'\u003c\/b\u003e William Gibson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The \"War in Heaven\", a simulated war game, rages between civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades, and the victors will decide the fate of the digital Hells - torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the Sichultian Enablement, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the virtual war threatens to spill into the Real, Y'breq is willing to risk everything for her freedom - but she'll need the Culture, and its help comes at a price. The Culture is going to war with death itself.\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 \u003cb\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003e The Player of Games\u003cbr\u003e Use of Weapons\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 \u003ci\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003e The Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Also now available:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Surface Detail #9 Culture","offer_id":46465398800581,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-356-52171-8.jpg?v=1782702550","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/surface-detail-9-culture","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}