An edition of Surface Detail (2010)

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An edition of Surface Detail (2010)

Surface Detail

  • 4.1 (30 ratings) ·
  • 37 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 39 Have read

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.

It begins with a murder.

And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.

Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.

Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality.

It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

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Orbit
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Les enfers virtuels
2013, Librairie générale française
in French
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail: A Culture novel
2011, Orbit
Paperback in English
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Surface Detail Lib/E
Feb 01, 2011, Hachette Book Group
audio cd
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Surface Detail (Culture)
May 12, 2011, Orbit
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail
2010, Orbit
in English
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail
2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail
2010, Orbit
in English
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail
Oct 01, 2010, Orbit
hardcover
Cover of: Surface Detail
Surface Detail
2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: Les enfers virtuels 1
Les enfers virtuels 1
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in French

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6052.A485 S87 2010, PR6052.A485S87 2010

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24500323M
Internet Archive
surfacedetail00bank_a1h9
ISBN 13
9780316123402
LCCN
2010932993
OCLC/WorldCat
548642208, 666483813
Library Thing
9927769

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