Surface Detail

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext It starts with a young woman being murdered. Miraculously, a secret deal means she lives again within the Culture. Now, she vows to return and kill her own murderer. Meanwhile, a war in heaven is brewing. Or rather, a war between the Heavens. Heavens are the network of uploaded consciousnesses - a cyber life after death. But where there are Heavens, Hells soon follow. Wars between these realms are formal digital affairs, but now there are rumours of secret factories building warships and all signs point to the factions of the long-dead and digitised. Zusammenfassung SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Banks, Iain M Banks, Iain M. Banks
• Publisher: Orbit
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9781841498959
• ISBN: 978-1-84149-895-9
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Orbit; Culture; Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Kriminalromane und Mystery, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Science Fiction, Englische Belletristik / Kriminalroman, the culture; space opera; amazon tv series; altered carbon; annihilation; peter f hamilton; alastair reynolds; children of time; adrian tchaikovsky; aliens; utopia; richard morgan; space; spaceships; space battles; the martian; andy weir; artemis; st