The Hydrogen Sonata: Iain M. Banks (Culture) - Softcover

Banks, Iain M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0356501493 ISBN 13: 9780356501499

Publisher: Orbit, 2013

Synopsis

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.

An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous.

About this title

Review:

25 years after Banks's first Culture novel he is as exuberant, slyly funny and mind-stretchingly imaginative as ever (SUNDAY TIMES)

Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

One of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future (GUARDIAN)

Sharply satirical and packed with brilliant action scenes, this space opera proves British SF's big beard still plays the best tunes (BBC FOCUS)

Book Description:

A Sunday Times bestselling Culture novel from the UK's leading SF writer

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0356501493
• ISBN 13: 9780356501499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640