Banks, Iain M. -- The Algebraist
His first non-Culture SF story in a while. This is a classic artifact-chase
through a gas giant, although (for a change) the gas gianteers aren't
extinct, they're just secretive jerks. Everyone is fighting over the
mcguffin, so there are huge space battles (unfortunately against a
blood-soaked psychopathic sadist, who is about as interesting a character as
the prop closet he was dragged out of). The vast sweeps of galactic history
are nice, though. Fun read, except that (this being Banks) everyone gets
screwed at the end.
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