Contents

Copyright

Prologue

1: Sorpen

2: The Hand of God 137

3: Clear 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

Extras

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