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FIRST EDITION, pages a little browned throughout (as usual), pp. [viii], 472, crown 8vo, original yellow boards, backstrip lettered in black, tiny faint spot to top corner of flyleaf, dustjacket, near fine. Signed by the author on the title-page, using the publisher's 'M' for his middle initial. The first of Banks's science fiction novels, establishing his 'Culture' series - his fourth book overall, the title drawn from Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.

Consider Phlebas is the first novel in Iain M. Banks's acclaimed Culture series. Blending grand scale science fiction with brilliant characterization, it tells the story of Horza, a shape-changer and enemy of the Culture, on a mission to capture a powerful AI.