The first book in Iain M.
It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction..
Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it.
Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade.
There could be no surrender.
Principles were at stake.
The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist.
Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random.
Billions had died, billions more were doomed.
The war raged across the galaxy.
Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind\'s imagination.
Banks\'s seminal science fiction series, The Culture.
The first book in Iain M
