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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but 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.
Abruptly 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.
Books by Iain M. Banks:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
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- John
- 02-06-24
Excellent performance of an excellent book.
I really enjoy Iain Banks’ books and Peter Kenny’s narration and voice work brought the book alive for me and highlighted elements of the characters and story that I maybe didn’t see when I read a physical copy quite a few years ago. This isn’t a Culture book but it handles a lot of the same themes looking at AI, for example, from a different angle. There’s also a rich cast of Alien characters which Peter Kenny performs enthusiastically and well, especially the Dwellers themselves, and minor characters such as a dolphin/whale like alien and one with a voice like a child with a mouth full of ball bearings!
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- Chris C
- 09-07-24
Thank you Iain and Peter
After listening to the Culture series I wanted to save this book, so it wasn’t over too quick and also as Peter had not yet recorded the narration. As soon as I heard Peter had finished recording I couldn’t wait and true to form he was excellent. So it’s a sad goodbye to Iain but I’m sure he’s out there somewhere watching from some thousand kilometre spherical mothership laughing away with the Minds that run it.
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- edmc
- 20-05-24
Classic Banks
Read this along time ago in paper form, A great narration of this non culture tale. ticks all the Iain M Banks space genre boxes. Loved it - classic Banks, he wa a legend.
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