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Paperback edition of the final Culture novel from the much-missed Iain M. Banks, who died in June. The Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years ago, but now they've decided to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new, more rich and complex existence. More than 1.1 millions of Banks's sci-fi novels have been sold, and this will receive widespread coverage in the wake of his death. '}The Hydrogen Sonata{ confrims his pre-eminence in the field' }Guardian
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous.
