num_pages: 593
description: In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else’s war is never a simple matter.
language: English
title: Matter
titlecomplete: Matter (Culture, #8)
characters: Djan Seriy Anaplian
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cultural, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Banks, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Fantasy
ratings_count: 27130
series: Culture
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Orbit