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Iain M. Banks: Look to windward (Hardcover, 2001, Pocket Books)

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.

It led to …

Before, we believed that the soul might be saved. Now our technology, our better understanding of the universe and our vanguard in the beyond, has robbed us of our unreal hopes and replaced them with its own rules and regulations, its own algebra of salvation and continuance. It has given us a glimpse of heaven, and made more intense the reality of our despair when we know that truly it exists and that those we love will never be found there.

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