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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
"Banks is a phenomenon." –– William Gibson
Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared.
It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.
Now it is back.
Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed . . .
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
The State of the Art
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,143
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Never achieves lift off
- De Richard Bruno en 10-01-18
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Alien Clay
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Ben Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 657
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 657
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super good!
- De Jessi en 11-26-24
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A Fire Upon the Deep
- De: Vernor Vinge
- Narrado por: Peter Larkin
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,233
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,754
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,762
A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a wild, wacky, awesome book!
- De Noah Smith en 06-20-10
De: Vernor Vinge