Paperback, 544 pages
English language
Published July 4, 2005 by Orbit.
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars.
Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of, Fassin Taak must travel amongst the Dwellers of the gas giant Nasqueron, in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. Any help they offer will be on their own terms and in their own time.
But time is one thing Fassin Taak doesn't have, with each passing day bringing the system closer to war—a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.
A fantastic book if you've finished the Culture series and are looking for a little bit more. Epic, complex, alien, immersive.
Couldn't get into it, and if you can't get into an Iain Banks book you might as well give up there and then because there's no way you're gonna find out what an Archiproctor is later.
