"One of Banks' best Culture novels to date."- Booklist on The Hydrogen Sonata "It's fantastically good fun that throws in some big ideas about life, the universe and everything, and like the unabashed leftie that he is, Banks manages to get in there a few sizable shots at unthinking, dogmatic religiosity for good measure."- SciFi Now "Incomparable entertainment, with fascinating and highly original characters, challenging ideas and extrapolations, and dazzling action.sheer delight."- Kirkus Reviews "Banks's charming prose and the scale of his imagination continue to delight Culture vultures."- SFX It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous. 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. 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. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. 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. An ancient people, organized 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. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. About the Book Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.īook Synopsis The New York Times bestselling Culture novel.
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