explorer / books · 2005
The Algebraist
Iain Banks’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 2004 by Orbit · 534 pages
Hugo · 2005
FinalistOn the ballot with
This book is recorded on the Hugo ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
In a far future galactic civilization, scholar Fassin Taak is sent to negotiate with the ancient, gas-giant-dwelling Dwellers for the coordinates of a secret wormhole network. As a devastating invasion fleet approaches his home system, Fassin navigates Dweller politics — beings who measure time in billions of years and find humans amusingly brief.
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