Matter (A Culture Novel Book 7)
<b>A<i> </i>novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.</b><br /><br /><b>"Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget." —<i>The Times</i></b><br /><br />In a world renowned even 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, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.<br /><br />Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy.<br /><br />Concealing her new identity — and her particular set of abilities — might be a dangerous strategy, however. 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.<br /><br /><u>The Culture Series</u><br /><i>Consider Phlebas<br />The Player of Games<br />Use of Weapons<br />The State of the Art<br />Excession<br />Inversions<br />Look to Windward<br />Matter<br />Surface Detail<br />The Hydrogen Sonata</i>