Awards
Hugo (nominee)
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Hugo (nominee)
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 civilisation. 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.
As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, the new science fiction novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
Genre: Science Fiction
The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. 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.
As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, the new science fiction novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
Genre: Science Fiction
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Hardback Editions
September 2005 : Hardback
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1597800260 / 9781597800266 (USA edition) Publisher: Night Shade Books Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
October 2004 : Hardback
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1841491551 / 9781841491554 (UK edition) Publisher: Orbit Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Paperback Editions
June 2006 : Paperback
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1597800449 / 9781597800440 (USA edition) Publisher: Night Shade Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
July 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1841492299 / 9781841492292 (UK edition) Publisher: Orbit Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
July 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1841492302 / 9781841492308 (UK edition) Publisher: Orbit Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
October 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1841492396 / 9781841492391 (UK edition) Publisher: An Orbit Book (London) Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
Audio Editions
2006 : Audio CD
| Title: The Algebraist [Audiobook] (CD) Author(s):: Iain Banks ISBN: 1419353780 / 9781419353789 (USA edition) Publisher: Availability: Amazon |
December 2005 : Audio CD
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1419353772 / 9781419353772 (USA edition) Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC Availability: Amazon CA Amazon |
2005 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1845053079 / 9781845053079 (UK edition) Publisher: Recorded Books Availability: Amazon |
November 2004 : Audio CD
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1405500786 / 9781405500784 (UK edition) Publisher: Hachette Digital Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
September 2008 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Algebraist Author(s):: Iain M. Banks ISBN: B002TXZSOO / 9781841492292 Publisher: Orbit Availability: Amazon UK |
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