Untitled New Iain M. Banks 1
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,
品牌: ~Iain M. Banks
基本信息出版社:Orbit (2012年10月4日)平装:368页正文语种:英语ISBN:0356501515条形码:9780356501512ASIN:0356501515商品描述内容简介It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.
An ancient people, they 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 civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.
Amidst 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 - 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. Cossont must discover the truth before she's exiled from her people and her civilization forever - or just plain killed.媒体推荐Praise forSurface Detail:
"Banks' ability to combine humor and horror, the cosmic and the human, as he builds an action-packed story on a moral framework, as well as his wonderfully original characters and, of course, the lavish descriptions of weapons and spaceships, makesSurface Detailall you could ask for in a space opera. Nobody does it better." (Times(UK))
"This is an engrossing novel of ideas ornamented by fantastically cinematic set-pieces." (The Guardian(UK))
"Surface Detailis the type of widescreen space adventure we've come to expect from Banks, full of elaborate games, spellchecker-busting names, salty dialogue and, above all, a thrilling sense of the limitless scope SF affords an author's imagination." (Financial Times(UK))
"Banks' labyrinthine and devious ninth Culture space opera novel...adeptly shifts perspective between vast concepts and individual passions." (Publishers Weekly)