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The Algebraist

Iain Banks · 2004 · Novel

Setting: far future (4034)

Synopsis

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 civilisation.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Science fictionWormholes (Physics)FictionSpace warfareAnthropologistsInterplanetary voyagesSpace flight

openlibrary_id: OL8368450W

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