"One of Banks' best Culture novels to date." "Booklist on The Hydrogen Sonata"" "Scotland-resident Banks' Culture yarns, the science-fiction equivalent of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, brim with wit and wisdom, providing incomparable entertainment, with fascinating and highly original characters, challenging ideas and extrapolations, and dazzling action seamlessly embedded in a satirical-comedy matrix." "One of Banks' best Culture novels to date."- Booklist on The Hydrogen Sonata "Banks' ability to combine humor and horror, the cosmic and the human, as he builds an action-packed story on a moral framework, as well as his wonderfully original characters and, of course, the lavish descriptions of weapons and spaceships, makes "Surface Detail" all you could ask for in a space opera. "Banks' labyrinthine and devious ninth Culture space opera novel.adeptly shifts perspective between vast concepts and individual passions."- Publishers Weekly "Surface Detail is the type of widescreen space adventure we've come to expect from Banks, full of elaborate games, spellchecker-busting names, salty dialogue and, above all, a thrilling sense of the limitless scope SF affords an author's imagination."- Financial Times (UK)
"This is an engrossing novel of ideas ornamented by fantastically cinematic set-pieces."- The Guardian (UK)
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive.
Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.Īmid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.Īn ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment.
The New York Times bestselling Culture novel.
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