![]() ![]() When approached by mysterious agents, he accepts a suicide mission to Masaq’ even though the details are withheld. ![]() Back on Chel, life has held no meaning for Major Quilan since he lost his beloved wife in the civil war. As a fighting spaceship, the Hub fought in that war and, to its everlasting anguish, was responsible for many deaths. Also in the recent past was the Culture’s war against the expansionist Idirans, won handily by the Culture. A century ago Chel fought a dreadful civil war over its caste system Ziller was so disgusted he left and never returned, but the Culture admits it fomented the war by political anticaste manipulations. ![]() In the Masaq’ Orbital artificial habitat (population about 50 billion run by an artificial intelligence called the Hub) lives the composer, Ziller, a five-legged Chelgrian, and his friend, Kabe Ischloear, the huge, pyramidal Homomdan Ambassador. Another of Banks’s far-future Culture yarns ( Inversions, 2000, etc.). ![]()
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