Consider Phlebas By Iain M Banks

Dazzlingly original. Daily MailGripping touching and funny. TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died billions more were doomed. Moons planets the very stars themselves faced destruction coldblooded brutal and worse random. The Idirans fought for their Faith the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world a Planet o