Part of the Culture series , book 9
Surface Detail
The story of what happens to Hell in a galaxy where humans live without physical form eternally.
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A Culture novel about a virtual Hell, built by a civilisation to punish the digital copies of the dead, and a woman who escapes it to take her revenge in the real world.
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
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