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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781597800440
ISBN: 1597800449
Label: Night Shade Books
Manufacturer: Night Shade Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 434
Publication Date: June 29, 2006
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Sales Rank: 61923
Studio: Night Shade Books
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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 - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - 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 closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.
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Banks's foremost non-Culture novel and in my opinion his best work so far, it is a must read for any Sci-Fi fan. Not one for spoiling the plot I will only say that it has certainly earned its spot on my "favorites" bookshelf next to Asimov's, Heinlein's, and Hamilton's best works.
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I was introduced to Iain M. Banks through his epic Culture tales. The Algebraist is not part of this "series", but Banks' style is still there throughout.
Fassin Taak is a Slow Seer, a human explorer/ambassador to the Dwellers, a species occurring throughout the galaxy that inhabits gas giant planets. Dwellers can live hundreds of millions of years, and their culture is both ancient and indecipherable. They occasionally allow others to visit, interact, and explore. That is Taak's job. ... Read More
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Iain M. Bank's The Algebraist was nominated for science fiction's highest award in 2005 and one of my favorite sci-fi authors, Peter F. Hamilton, the creator of the Night's Dawn space opera, has cited the fellow British writer as an influence and inspiration. So I greatly looked forward to reading Banks' latest science fiction work, especially considering the title has something to do with mathematics, my regular day job. Banks is an unusual author in that he is well-known (and commercially successful) ... Read More
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"The Algebraist" was my first venture into the mind of Iain M. Banks, after I saw a character in the movie Hot Fuzz (Widescreen Edition)reading one of his books. I am not a particular fan of sci-fi, so this was the only, shallow reason for checking it out.
The story is highly original and Banks' universe of 4035 AD, (or there abouts), is peopled with a wide variety of intersting aliens and worlds. The whole place is a mind-trip of different technologies and worlds in which Slow Seer Taak Fassin ... Read More
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The following sentence, which is fairly typical of the prose in this work, appears on the top of page 25 of the hardcover edition of this book:
"Though it would be a pity if Ilen -- achingly beautiful, wanly pale, shamelessly blonde, effortlessly academically accomplished, bizarrely unself-assured and insecure Ilen -- had to perish in the wreck too, Fassin thought."
If you can read sentences like this and not flinch, you may enjoy this work. I cannot, and after twenty or thirty such ... Read More
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