It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last mo...

A diplomat is sent to investigate the sudden disappearance of a star older than the universe, requiring him to steal the soul of the long-deceased starship captain who first encountered the star and bring her back to life. Reprint.

Chosen in a British poll as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century, this 1984 novel about a family’s strange and repulsive secret has become a cult classic. Sixteen years old, Frankie has developed behavioral pa...