The Algebraist - Iain M Banks

Category: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Adventure Galactic Empire Space Space Opera

Written by Iain M Banks
Read by Peter Kenny
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

/There is another version of this book in this site narrated by Geoffrey Annis/

/This novel is NOT set in ‘The Culture’ fictional universe/

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.

The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.

Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely heard of Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws close.

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