Book description
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, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome
imagination. Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public
notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in
1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both
his mainstream and his science fiction novels.
