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Matter

Iain M. Banks

First published 2008
Type Novel
Series Culture #8

In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity--and her particular set of abilities--might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter. (WorldCat)

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Nominee/Finalist
2009 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Runner-up
2009 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
2008 Cover Sphären Heyne Novel
2008 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
January 2008 Cover Matter The Easton Press Novel
January 2008 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
February 2008 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
February 2008 Cover Matter Orbit (US) Novel 1
February 2008 Matter Orbit (US) Novel
February 2008 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
February 2008 Matter Hachette Audio Novel
April 2008 Cover Matter Orbit / SFBC Novel
September 2008 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
December 2008 Cover Trames Robert Laffont Novel 5
2009 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
February 2009 Cover Matter Orbit (US) Novel 1
February 2009 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
2010 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
2011 Cover Matter Orbit Novel 1|1
July 2011 Cover Sphären Heyne Novel
September 2012 Cover Trames Le Livre de Poche Novel
2014 Cover Matter Orbit Novel
February 2014 Cover Matter Hachette Audio Novel
November 2023 Cover Matter Orbit Novel