# The Algebraist - Paperback

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by **Iain M. Banks** (Author)

**As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.**

"An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events." -_Publishers Weekly_ (Starred Review)

It is 4034 AD. 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 and 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 - Fassin 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 that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.

"Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance." -William Gibson

"Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction." -_The New York Times_

_For More from Iain M. Banks, check out:_

**The Culture series:**  
_Consider Phlebas  
The Player of Games  
Use of Weapons  
The State of the Art  
Excession  
Inversions  
Look to Windward  
Matter  
Surface Detail  
The Hydrogen Sonata_

### Author Biography

**Iain Banks** came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, _The Wasp Factory_, in 1984. _Consider Phlebas_, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.

**Number of Pages:** 704

**Dimensions:** 2 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** April 02, 2024

## Details

- **Price:** 28.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Technological, Thrillers

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