num_pages: 534
description: It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. 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. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young &amp; fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of—part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony— Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer—a war threatening to overwhelm everything &amp; everyone he's ever known.
language: English
title: The Algebraist
titlecomplete: The Algebraist
characters: Taince Yarabokin, Fassin Taak, Luseferous
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Banks, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 21953
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Orbit