The Algebraist (ISBN 1-841-49155-1) is a non-Culture science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks, to be published in the UK by Little Brown (an imprint of Time Warner) in October 2004.
Warning: Plot details follow.
Set in a 4034AD where mankind has spread through the galaxy, it centres around Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, a people who live around a gas giant on the far reaches of the galaxy, cut off from the rest of civilisation until its wormhole connection is built.
That is EXACTLY the same premise as my novel "The Wormhole War", which I began writing in 2003. (I think)
A revised version can be read in the Fanfics forum.
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Yeah, get him just like that person who supposedly created The Matrix. Only you won't, unless you have a good lawyer and more than tenuous allegations.
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Yeah, get him just like that person who supposedly created The Matrix. Only you won't, unless you have a good lawyer and more than tenuous allegations.
I do believe the comments about law-suit in this thread were meant to be tongue-in-cheek...
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Yeah, get him just like that person who supposedly created The Matrix. Only you won't, unless you have a good lawyer and more than tenuous allegations.
I do believe the comments about law-suit in this thread were meant to be tongue-in-cheek...
As was mine, sans-smilies.
Come to think of it, the plot sounds vaguely like Bolo Strike in the whole far off planet orbiting gas giant with the rest of humanity reaching it again kind of thing.
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