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  Author(s): Iain M. Banks  Title:      Matter  ISBN:  978 1 84149 419 7  Publisher/place:  Orbit Books, London  This Edition:  paperback edition of 2009  First Published: 2008  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  593 + extras  Weight: 495g  Condition:   Excellent   

Softcover. English. Orbit. 2011. 627p. In good condition. It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful thought it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality.It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

Hardback. English. MacMillan. 1987. First Edition. In used condition. Spine slighlty loose. Ex-library copy. 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.