Feersum endjinn

Paperback, 279 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 1995 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-1-85723-273-8
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4 stars (13 reviews)

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...

Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ...

And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ...

And everything is about to change ...

For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery.

The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.

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Another excellent book from Iain M Banks, who has an amazing imagination.
It is set partly in the real world, partly in a global virtual world that the inhabitants can switch between.
There is some good satire of hierarchical societies, in this case a kingdom, as the rulers react to global catastrophe by attempting to save themselves with no regard to the fate of the rest.
One of the characters can only spell fonetikli and tells his story in the first person but I found I adapted within a few sentences to reading many pages in his idiosyncratic style.

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