- Long Now Manual for Civilization, Space warfare, Utopies, Life on other planets
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.
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Epic, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 369
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, AST, Livre de Poche
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780356225678
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“The barges lay on the darkness of the still canal, their lines softened by the snow heaped in pillows and hummocks on their decks.”
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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