Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Major Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq’ to bring home Chel’s most brilliant star and self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller. There it will fall upon Masaq’s 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent and to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture’s own complicity in the terrible event.Īlso journeying to Masaq’ is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. Now, eight hundred years later, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq’ Orbital, home to the Culture’s most adventurous and decadent souls. They were attacks of incredible proportion-gigadeathcrimes.
Desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war-and one of the most horrific.
This “sophisticated space opera” ( The New York Times), filled with suspense and humor, masterfully explores the horrors of war-from the acclaimed author of The Wasp Factory.
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