A Sunday Times bestselling Culture novel from the UK's leading SF writer

THE SCAVENGER SPECIES ARE CIRCLING.
IT IS, TRULY, THE END DAYS FOR THE GZILT CIVILISATION.

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future . . . The Hydrogen Sonata confirms his pre-eminence in the field'
GUARDIAN

'Exuberant, slyly funny and mind-stretchingly imaginative'
SUNDAY TIMES

'The Hydrogen Sonata counts down to Sublimation, where an entire race leaves our universe to move spiritually upmarket. But scavengers await, and a racial secret sparks violence, intrigue, murder and general unspirituality. Compulsive reading'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Sharply satirical and packed with brilliant action scenes'
BBC FOCUS

'Magnificent'
DAILY MAIL