Matter
Book 8 of Culture
Language: English
Adventure Artificial Intelligence Brothers and Sisters Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction Government investigators Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Life on Other Planets Murder Nanotechnology Nomination of 2009 Prometheus Award for Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Novel Preliminary Nominees of 2008 BSFA Award for Best Novel Science Fiction Science Fiction - Adventure Science Fiction - Space Opera Science Fiction And Fantasy Space Opera Space colonies _isfdb artifact mega-engineering megastructure transhuman
Publisher: Orbit
Published: Jan 2, 2008
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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. 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 civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. 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. MATTER is a 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.