Matter

Name: Matter
Author: Iain M. Banks
ISBN: 9780316040723

Iain M. Banks

awards won

score

Matter

Iain M. Banks

awards won

score

#2931 of 8,085 books · #708 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2009) and the Prometheus Award (2009).

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 civilizations 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.

Buy this book at AmazonAd