Matter (Culture)

Matter (Culture)

Iain M. Banks

Language: English

Pages: 624

ISBN: 0316005371

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


In a world renowned even 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, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.

Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy.

Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. 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.

MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.

Dolan-Alarm (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 40; M 87, Band 8)

Rebell gegen ES (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 97; BARDIOC, Band 4)

Salesman From Mars (America's Galactic Foreign Legion, Book 13)

Indentured (The Mystic Saga, Book 1)

The Smoke Ring (The State, Book 3)

Das Mutanten-Korps (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 2; Die Dritte Macht, Band 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

betting and losing his entire fortune and inheritance to his servant – ha! There were universe-lines where he’d kill Ferbin over the disputed card game, and others wherein Ferbin would kill him; indeed there were tracks that led to everything that could be imagined, and everything that would never be imagined by anybody but was still somehow possible. It seemed at first glance like utter madness, yet it also, when one thought about it, appeared somehow no less implausible than any other

an Oversquare level so there’s no onward connections.” “A dead end?” Ferbin said. Were they never to be released from this cloying purple filth? “Yes. So we have to drop.” “Drop?” “Walk this way,” Djan Seriy said, turning. The scendship’s door rolled up, revealing darkness. They all got to their feet, pushed through the thick-feeling curtain at the entrance and were suddenly free of the glutinous purple stuff filling the scendship’s interior. Ferbin looked down at his arms, chest and legs,

swinging towards you.” “Great,” Anaplian muttered. “So now we’re at war with the fucking Nariscene.” “Excuse me, ma’am, sir,” Holse said. “Do all levels have such fearsome weaponry looking down upon them?” “Basically, yes,” Hippinse said. “By the way, I’m down by five and a half out of eight micro-missiles,” the drone said. “That was learning overkill and I think I can deal with anything similar with two easy, one high-probability, but just to let you know.” “Five and a half?” Anaplian said.

heard himself make that pathetic, weak little sound and hated himself for it. Breathing under the cloak, he caught a faint odour of dried blood and faeces, and hated that too. He was Ferbin otz Aelsh-Hausk’r, a prince of the House of Hausk, son of King Hausk the Conqueror. And while he was his father’s son, he had not been raised to be like him. His father gloried in war and battle and dispute, had spent his entire life aggressively expanding the influence of his throne and his people, always in

Sursamen. SC agent + combat drone was a combination that was well known far beyond the Culture. Although perilously close to a cliché, it remained a partnership you could, allegedly, still frighten children and bad people with. Anaplian felt a faint tingle somewhere inside her head and experienced a sort of buzzing sensation throughout her body. She tried clicking into her skein sense, that let her monitor significant gravity waves in her vicinity and alerted her to any warp activity nearby, but

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