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Matter

Iain Banks

2008448 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 608 pages · ENGISBN 9780748110049
  • 2009Orbit · ENGISBN 9780316040723
  • 2009Orbit · 611 pages · ENGISBN 9780316005371
  • 2008Orbit · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780316005364
  • 2008Hachette AudioISBN 9781405503983
  • 2008Orbit · 544 pages · ENGISBN 9781841494173
  • 2008Orbit Books · 544 pagesISBN 9781841494180
  • 2008OrbitISBN 9780356249209

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.

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