Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks, Paperback Poetry Mackenzie will keep her grandmother

Mackenzie will keep her grandmother off her back

But in the club known as The Black Sun

The themes and ideas that matter to twenty-first-century readers tend to resonate with our present situations in some way

To thwart the prince's endgame and prevent the Tiressian empire from returning to an age of gods

Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks, Paperback Poetry Mackenzie will keep her grandmotherThe first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The