Consider Phlebas
Publisher: Orbit
Published: March 26, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780316005388
Subjects: Science Fiction - Adventure; Science Fiction - Space Opera; Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction
Description: Overview: 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.