CONSIDER PHLEBAS (CULTURE 1) (PB)

War rages across the galaxy. The Idirans fight for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles are at stake. There can be no surrender. Deep within a fabled labyrinth, on a Planet of the Dead forbidden to mortals, lies a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans desperately seek it. It is the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, to find it - and with it their own destruction.