Title: Matter
Title Record # 640181
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 2008-01-31
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 8
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: space opera (2), science fiction (2), artifact (1), nanotechnology (1), artificial intelligence (1), mega-engineering (1), transhuman (1), megastructure (1) Add Tags
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 2008-01-31
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 8
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity--and her particular set of abilities--might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter. (WorldCat)
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Preliminary Nominees | 2008 BSFA | Best Novel |
2 | 2009 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Nomination | 2009 Prometheus | Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Sphären | 2008-00-00 | Iain Banks | Heyne | 978-3-453-52500-9 | €16.00?€: Euro |
797 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Matter | 2008-01-00 | Iain M. Banks | The Easton Press (Signed First Editions of Science Fiction #248) | 106-248 |
xi+ 593 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Matter | 2008-01-31 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-0-356-24920-9 | £18.99?£: UK pound |
612 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Matter | 2008-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-417-3 | £18.99?£: UK pound |
593 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2008-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit (US) | 978-0-316-00536-4 | $25.99?$: US dollar |
593 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2008-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit (US) | 978-0-316-04072-3 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Matter | 2008-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-418-0 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
593 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2008-02-07 | Iain M. Banks | Hachette Audio | 978-1-4055-0389-1 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
novel | |||
Matter | 2008-04-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit / SFBC | 1253327 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
593 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2008-09-04 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-0-7481-1004-9 | £5.49?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Trames | 2008-12-00 | Iain M. Banks | Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain) | 978-2-221-11133-8 | 586 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | |||
Matter | 2009-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-419-7 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
611 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2009-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit (US) | 978-0-316-00537-1 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
611 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2009-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-419-7 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
593 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2010-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-419-7 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
611 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2011-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-419-7 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
593+ [48] |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Trames | 2012-09-00 | Iain M. Banks | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #32704) | 978-2-253-16465-4 | 840 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |||
Matter | 2014-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-84149-419-7 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
593+ [11] |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Debra Lill | |
Matter | 2023-11-30 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-0-356-52170-1 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
608 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Matter | date unknown | Iain M. Banks | Orbit (US) | 978-0-316-00536-4 | $25.99?$: US dollar |
593 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Debra Lill |
Reviews
- Review by James Lovegrove (2008) in Lifelines and Deadlines: Selected Nonfiction, (2015)
- Review by Graham Sleight (2008) in Locus, #566 March 2008
- Review by Jonathan McCalmont (2008) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2008
- Review by John Clute (2008) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2008
- Review by Faren Miller (2008) in Locus, #567 April 2008
- Review by Gwyneth Jones (2008) in Strange Horizons, 14 April 2008
- Review by Russell Letson (2008) in Locus, #568 May 2008
- Review by Keith Stevenson (2008) in Aurealis, #41
- Review by Stuart Carter (2008) in Vector 255 Spring 2008
- Review by Paul Kincaid (2008) in SFRA Review #286
- Review by Tony C. Smith (2009) in StarShipSofa, No 62
- Review by Andy Hooper (2018) in Tightbeam, April 2018