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The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Algebraist about?
<p><P>It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. 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 civilization. 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.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Banks (Look to Windward) pulls out all the stops in this gloriously over-the-top, state-of-the-art space opera, a Hugo nominee in its British edition. In a galaxy teeming with intelligent life-forms and dominated by the intensely hierarchical society known as the Mercato
Who reads The Algebraist?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Iain M. Banks
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781597800440
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (13,414 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14