{"product_id":"9781857231380-consider-phlebas","title":"Consider Phlebas","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Culture Novel. \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003c\/i\u003e is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003c\/i\u003e is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, to actually find it - and with it their own destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the Culture series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsive reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eThe State of the Art\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks\u003cb\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003eThe Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31859658784865,"sku":"9781857231380","price":8.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/d2d6e34c218afa7c3101138ab387a2ba.png?v=1693571266","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857231380-consider-phlebas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}