TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banks,Iain
TI  - The algebraist
SN  - 1841491551
AV  - PR6052.A485 A47 2004
U1  - 823.914 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Orbit
KW  - Space travelers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
N1  - kh2018; P.B
N2  - "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." "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."--Jacket
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