Series: Book 1 in the Culture series
Rating: **
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary
The war raged across the galaxy.
Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets,
the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded,
brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith;
the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at
stake. There could be no surrender.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep
within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the
Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the
Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza,
the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries,
human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own
destruction.