Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Banks, I: Hydrogen Sonata: The Culture, cartea 10


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2013
THE SCAVENGER SPECIES ARE CIRCLING.
IT IS, TRULY, THE END DAYS FOR THE GZILT CIVILISATION.

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future . . . The Hydrogen Sonata confirms his pre-eminence in the field'
GUARDIAN

'Exuberant, slyly funny and mind-stretchingly imaginative'
SUNDAY TIMES

'The Hydrogen Sonata counts down to Sublimation, where an entire race leaves our universe to move spiritually upmarket. But scavengers await, and a racial secret sparks violence, intrigue, murder and general unspirituality. Compulsive reading'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Sharply satirical and packed with brilliant action scenes'
BBC FOCUS

'Magnificent'
DAILY MAIL
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria The Culture

Preț: 5119 lei

Preț vechi: 7713 lei
-33%

Puncte Express: 77

Preț estimativ în valută:
981 1065$ 841£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780356501499
ISBN-10: 0356501493
Pagini: 630
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
Seria The Culture


Notă biografică

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain lives in Fife, Scotland.


Recenzii

The action tumbles along at a dizzying pace, bouncing among a fascinating array of characters and locales. It's easy to see why Banks's fertile, cheerfully nihilistic imagination and vivid prose have made the Culture space operas bestsellers and award favorites

Descriere

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.

An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous.