The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern
science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination
with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as
one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the
genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The Scavenger species
are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt
civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles
and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the
Culture ten thousand years earlier.Now they've made the collective
decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other
civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a
new and almost in finitely more rich and complex existence. But,
amid preparations, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Vyr
Cossont, a former soldier for the Gzilt, appears to have been
involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive.Aided only by an
ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar,
Cossont must complete a final mission, she must find the oldest
person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who
might just hold the key to understanding what happened . . .The
final days of the Gzilt civilisation may prove its most perilous.
Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its
ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks
has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the
future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'
Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture
series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of
WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe
Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M.
Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso
now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary
collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from
sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships,
habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series
of novels in incredible detail.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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