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02129aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 5FEE9B34208011E59F296EB6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150702010207 008 130208s2013 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780316212366 020 $a 0316212369 035 $a (OCoLC)827082622 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d BDX $d UMR $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d CNUXB $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6052.A485 $b H93 2013 100 1 $a Banks, Iain, $d 1954-2013. 245 14 $a The hydrogen sonata / $c Iain M. Banks. 250 $a First trade edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Orbit, $c 2013. 300 $a 529 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes excerpt from "Consider Phlebas." 520 $a "The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Space warfare $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sabotage $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20150702021228.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5FEE9B34208011E59F296EB6DAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search