It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely ...
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It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the centre of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. 640 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2010 Orbit. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Not price clipped.
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F- in VG+ jacket. F-/VG+. 8vo. original black boards (occ. spots) in dustwrapper priced £18.99 (a trifle rubbed, short fray at headcap, else as new); pp. [viii (last blank)], 628 (last blank), with pictorial endpapers. Heavy item (1.2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy of the ninth 'The Culture' novel.
This story from the world of Iain M. Banks' Culture science fiction world can be read as a standalone novel, as is the case for the rest in the series. Interesting characters develop and have strange adventures. There are a few scary bits regarding virtual Hells and the Intagliate, and these are well-told. There's so much cool technology in the Culture: spaceship Minds, intelligent floating drones, and neural laces to name but three. Not sure how everything in the Culture works, though, without private property and commerce. The bad guy is a businessman in a non-Culture star system.
