Consider Phlebas

Synopsis

The first book in iain m. Banks's seminal science fiction series, the culture. 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. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The idirans fought for their faith; the culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.