Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks was the 146th official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.

Reading Period: July 1, 2021 to July 31, 2021

How/Why was this book chosen: Tom chose it.

Goodreads Group Discussion of Consider Phlebas

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.