![]() ![]() One of Banks' best Culture novels to date. ![]() on download FREE shipping on qualifying offers. ![]() Like eating Vegemite, enjoying it was akin to suffering Stockholm. Banks' mesmerizing, far-reaching narrative includes a wide assortment of colorful characters, from the musically gifted Cossont and her conniving Culture-made android to a sentient starship that joins in the chase. The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture) Banks, Iain M. The Hydrogen Sonata when actually performed was, like most atonal avante-garde music, actively hostile to most listeners’ ears. ![]() Field Lieutenant Vyr Cossont is dispatched to find a 900-year-old Culture citizen presumed to be linked to the saboteur but quickly becomes the manhunt's chief target when the Gzilt Regimental Command is also destroyed. With mere days remaining before the great transition, Gzilt leaders are busy deciding which scavenger species can inherit a wealth of soon-to-be-abandoned technology when one of the Gzilts' starships is destroyed in an apparent attempt to sabotage the Subliming. The latest Culture installment recounts the fate of the Gzilt civilization, a now-estranged Culture cofounder, which is preparing to join untold other societies in the Sublime, a realm of virtual immortality located somewhere in hyperspace. Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2012 September #1 The widespread popularity of Banks' Culture novels, which chronicle the escapades of a technologically superior humanoid species, has made him the bestselling sf writer in the UK. ![]()
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