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The clear air turbulence swung through the shadow of a moon, past a barren, cratered surface its track dimpling as it skirted the top edge of a gravity well and then down towards a cloudy, bluegreen planet. Banks 64kbps in the midst of a war between two galactic empires, a shapechanging agent of the iridans undertakes a clandestine mission to a forbidden planet in search of an intelligent, fugitive machine whose actions could alter the course of the conflict. Banks first novel 1987 set in his now famous culture universe, and although its a wellwritten book with lots of clever ideas, i wouldnt say its the best book in the series. Consider phlebas introduces listeners to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the. This is the first book from the culture series, but its somewhat different to the rest of them, being set over 500 years before any of the other books, during the idiran war.
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