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List Price: $12.99Amazon.com's Price: $10.39 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780316005388
ISBN: 031600538X
Label: Orbit
Manufacturer: Orbit
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: March 26, 2008
Publisher: Orbit
Sales Rank: 8905
Studio: Orbit
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"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail
"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLS
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.
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I bought this book based on the glowing reviews found on Amazon. I'll admit it's not entirely unreadable and for enthusiasts of military scifi, there are some things to like here (the cover art, for example, is awesome). However, taken as a whole this novel was far more irritating than engrossing.
The small annoyances: the back cover and the prologue inform us that the central conflict of this novel will be two interstellar nations racing to recover a powerful AI computer that's stranded ... Read More
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This is the beginnings of great scifi series. I will recommend this book to anyone who likes the space opera scifi. It was an interesting story, and made me want more when it was done.
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I bought this book because I was intrigued by "Matter" and wanted to get in on the storyline before it, so I bought this instead. I was excited by the ideas: Minds, sentient AIs that are highly autonomous and the real leaders of the human empire, and huge space constructs: Rings, like in Niven's "Ringworld," and spheres that can encompass a sun and use 100% of the solar energy, among other things.
Unfortunately, after an exciting beginning and a strong entry into the plot, the book seems to ... Read More
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I'm dissapointed... :(
I relied on the glowing reviews here on amazon for my first SF novel, but instead of a thought provoking tale I got mundane social struggles in a Sci-Fi setting. This book is about war, the people that fight it and their motivations, not about any of the things that make sci-fi interesting for me.
In the end the story was quite standard with romance and lots of action, but barely any twists to speak of and even though the ending was unconventional, it was ... Read More
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The Culture is a civilization of sentient beings, both organic and "machine" (think artificial intelligence with all the rights of intelligent life forms) based. There is no need for money except to use in less evolved cultures. The Culture doesn't even have goals of planetary conquest. They just build enormous artificial habitats in space.
But the Culture does pay attention to those other civilizations that can upset the status quo, or keep the Culture from its path to enlightenment.
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