num_pages: 471
description: "Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe 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.
language: English
title: Consider Phlebas Special Edition
titlecomplete: Consider Phlebas Special Edition
characters: Bora Horza Gobuchul, Perosteck Balveda, Kraiklyn, Yalson
genres: Adventure, Space, Fantasy, Cultural, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 88408
series: Culture
publisher: Pan Macmillan