Banks, Iain, 1954-20132005
"It is AD 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of, he has to travel among the Nasqueron Dwellers - inhabitants of a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a syst...