Look to Windward Iain M. Banks

It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture"s Masaq" Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Look to Windward (Iain M. Banks)