Zusatztext A mordant wit! a certain savagery and a wild imagination Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Mass market paperback edition of this latest "Culture" novel from Iain M. Banks, which will doubtless be eagerly anticipated by his legions of loyal readers. The publicity and marketing campaign will include nationwide railway posters, bus sides in Edinburgh during the festival, and a two-week author PR tour. "...a mordant wit, a certain savagery and a wild imagination". "Mail On Sunday". Zusammenfassung The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'. The light from the second may not. 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 Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks : Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist
Paru le : 01/08/2001
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Auteur(s) : Auteur : Banks, Iain M.
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Orbit
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EAN13 : 9781841490595
Pages : 416
Hauteur: 196.0 cm / Largeur 128.0 cm
Épaisseur: 27.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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