first edition
2008 · New York, London
by Banks, Iain
New York, London: Orbit, 2008. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. An agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section intervenes in a war between low-technology inhabitants of a planetary macrostructure comprising a nest of concentric Hollow-Earth shells with internal, artificial suns. A "Culture novel that includes a small amount of explicitly eutopian description of the Culture." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Minute bump to upper spine end, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with tiny matching bump. (#144834) (Inventory #: 144834)
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