{"product_id":"9780356521756","title":"The Algebraist","description":"Author: Iain M. Banks\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780356521756\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 544 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbruptly seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Compulsive reading' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooks by Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcession\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInversions\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLook to Windward\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatter\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurface Detail\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Algebraist\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso now available: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e- an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46469656445086,"sku":"ADS-9780356521756","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780356521756.jpg?v=1770099652","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780356521756","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}