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The Algebraist

By Iain M. Banks

Book information

Publisher
Night Shade Books
Year
2006
ISBN
1597800449, 9781597800440
Open Library ID
OL8895416M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
498 kB (510236 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
434\0
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. 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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