A reincarnated individual thought that this Earth was just like his original, with no magic or adventures, but a run in with a two people changes that and may lead to something even better and a new perspective on life.

This is a Culture prequel, set about 8000 years before Consider Phlebas.

A man awakes after dying to find that life can be stranger than fiction.

After returning from the events of "The Player of Games", Jernau Morat Gurgeh finds himself asked to go on just one more secret mission for Special Circumstances.