Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1994. It won a British Science Fiction Association Award in 1994.
It was Banks' second science fiction novel not based or set within the Culture universe.
Count Sessine is about to die for the last time. Chief Scientist Gadfium, in conspiracy against the King, is concerned about the mysterious messages she is getting from the Plain of Sliding Stones. B...
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Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1994. It won a British Science Fiction Association Award in 1994.
It was Banks' second science fiction novel not based or set within the Culture universe.
Count Sessine is about to die for the last time. Chief Scientist Gadfium, in conspiracy against the King, is concerned about the mysterious messages she is getting from the Plain of Sliding Stones. Bascule the Teller, in search of his lost talking ant, Ergates, is about to enter the strange virtual world of the "cryptosphere" ("crypt").
The "Encroachment" is about to dim the sun of Serehfa Fastness, where the characters live on and in a mysterious piece of mega-architecture, and plunge the world into an ice age. The King and his advisers know this, but they continue to fight the clan of Engineers. The crypt also knows of the threat, and sends an emissary.
The book is set on a far future Earth where the transfer of mindstates into a world...
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