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The algebraist, Iain M. Banks

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The algebraist, Iain M. Banks

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The algebraist

Oclc number

954419097

Responsibility statement

Iain M. Banks

Summary

"The time is 4034 A.D. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of--part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony--Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer--a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known."

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