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Consider Phlebas

Authors:: Iain M. Banks (author) and Mark Salwowski (covers)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Orbit Books
Categories:: Novel, science fiction and space opera
Universe:: Culture
Series:: Culture (1/10)
Publication year:: 1987
ISBN:: 1-85723-138-4
Pages:: 471
Synopsis:: A hunted Mind is forced to escape to Schar's World and both the Culture and the Idirans (fierce tripedal warriors) want it. The book's protagonist, Bora Horza Gobuchul, is a Changer who works for the Idirans to retrieve the Mind, and the book follows his adventure.
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Prologue

1. Sorpen

2. The Hand of God 137

3. Clear Air Turbulence

4. Temple of Light

State of play: one

5. Megaship

6. The Eaters

Interlude in darkness

7. A Game of Damage

8. The Ends of Invention

State of play: two

9. Schar's World

10. The Command System: Batholith

State of play: three

11. The Command System: Stations

12. The Command System: Engines

13. The Command System: Terminus

14. Consider Phlebas

Appendices: the Idiran-Culture war

Reasons: the Culture

Reasons: the Idirans

The war, briefly

Dramatis personae

Epilogue