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Banks Iain M.
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The State of the Art
Автор: Banks Iain M. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1993 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20091995-10-27
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«A collection of short fiction by the author of «The Wasp Factory» and «Against a Dark Background». The title story is a novella continuing the Culture sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.»
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Against a Dark Background
Автор: Banks Iain M. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1995 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20091997-07-24
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Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic litt commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
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The Hydrogen Sonata
Автор: Banks Iain M. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20162015-10-31
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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.
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