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1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
When the time came for the expedition to return to France
'Ebullient and funny' The Times
Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks business & economics flinging out into a strangeThe first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. 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