994 0384b938-54cf-44e3-8087-ece669e8bd79 The Algebraist Iain M. Banks calibre (0.8.17) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2010-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 SUMMARY: 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. Orbit eng General Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Space warfare Graphic Novels Comics & Graphic Novels Interplanetary voyages Science Fiction - Space Opera Graphic Novels: General Wormholes (Physics) Anthropologists