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Title details for Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks - Available

Consider Phlebas

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by Iain M. Banks
Peter Kenny
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The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.
The 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.
Within 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, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Culture

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 3, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781611138771
      • File size: 473565 KB
      • Duration: 16:26:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The Culture is the largest collective group of intelligent beings in the universe, and Earth's humans are merely one of its myriad members. The concept of a "post-scarcity" society, so remote as to seem truly alien, lends a real ethical weight to an otherwise straightforward space opera. It's a testament to Peter Kenny's performance that all the increasingly bizarre names sound entirely normal. Also, he creates characterizations so distinctly that stretches in which no speaker is identified are easily understood. He really cuts loose in his portrayal of the cannibalistic Eater holy man, who speaks, it seems, through a dripping patina of mucous and sweat. Protagonist Bora Horza and antagonist Perosteck Balveda sound positively restrained in comparison, as does a foulmouthed mercenary who meets a sticky end. A.Z.W. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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