Sci-fi meetup online: "The Hydrogen Sonata" by Ian M. Banks

Hello, everyone!

For our this sci-fi meetup, we'll be reading a Culture novel, namely "The Hydrogen Sonata" by Ian M. Banks.

GOODREADS SUMMARY

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.

An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt 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 moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.

THE FOLLOWING BOOK

In the meetup to follow, we will read "We Are Satellites" by Sarah Pinsker.

JOIN US ONLINE

We use Jitsi Meet to meet online. You can join the link from 18:20 onwards.

ALL ARE WELCOME

We're a friendly crowd that welcomes newcomers, and who sometimes manages to even stay on topic. Join for a good conversation even if you don't manage to finish the book ^_^