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 PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the
ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen Sonata Other books by
Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
