Surface Detail

About “Surface Detail”

A 2010 Culture novel by Iain M. Banks. It begins in the realm of the Real, with a murder, and builds toward the Culture going to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq, one of the Intagliated whose marked body bears witness to a family shame, escapes a man whose lust for power is limitless, and with the Culture's help becomes entangled in a war raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead.