"Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebas" - читать интересную книгу автора (iain m banks - 1987 - consider phlebas)

to the memory of Bill Hunt



Prologue

1. Sorpen
2. The Hand of God 137
3. Clean Air Turbulence
4. Temple of Light

State of play: one

5. Megaship
6. The Eaters

Interlude in darkness

7. A Game of Damage
8. The Ends of Invention

State of play: two

9. Schar's World
10. The Command System: Batholith

State of play: three

11. The Command System: Stations
12. The Command System: Engines
13. The Command System: Terminus
14. Consider Phlebas

Appendices: the Idiran-Culture war

Reasons: the Culture
Reasons: the Idirans
The war, briefly

Dramatis personae

Epilogue




Prologue

The ship didn't even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accommodation units for the same reason. It had no class number or fleet designation because it was a mongrel made from bits and pieces of different types of warcraft; and it didn't have a name because the factory craft had no time left for such niceties.