Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognisable landscape
The intricate structure of a Shellworld - an artificial planet of spheres-within-spheres - is matched only by the machinations of its inhabitants
a plethora of exorcised ghosts
still struggling with her semi-vampiric nature
It's a completely gripping story
Iain M. Banks Culture - 25th anniversary box set K. E. Mills Beyond the walls of theCONSIDER PHLEBAS 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 Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead