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Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas




An Orbit Book

First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Macmillan London Limited
This edition published in 1988 by Futura Publications Reprinted 1988 (three times), 1989, 1990 Reprinted in Orbit 1991, 1992 (twice), 1993 (twice), 1994, 1995, 1996 (twice), 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Copyright (c) lain M. Banks 1987

The right of lain M. Banks to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All characters in this publication are fictitious
and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.

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ISBN 1 85723 138 4

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Idolatry is worse than carnage.

The Koran, 2: 190


Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

T. S. Eliot,
'The Waste Land', IV