- Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Space warfare
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.
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Contemporary, classical in form, epic and richly built.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 517
- Publisher
- Orbit, Orion Books, Orbit Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780356501512
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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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