Matter
by Iain M. Banks
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Author: Iain M. BanksEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-27
ISBN: 0316005363
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Orbit
Book Reviews of Matter
Book Review: Great Read
Summary: 4 Stars
Only reason I did not give this book 5 stars was the ending. As another reviewer noted it was abrupt and ruined the pace of the story being told. Otherwise, I thought Banks did a great job with this book.
Summary of Matter
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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