5 reasons to read...Iain M Banks

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  • Matter (A Culture Novel Book 8)

    • ASIN: B000VMHI98
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Consider Phlebas (A Culture Novel Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0013TX6FI
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Surface Detail (A Culture Novel Book 9)

    • ASIN: B0046A9NLC
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • The Culture Boxed Set: Consider Phlebas, Player of Games and Use of Weapons

    • ASIN: 0316225088
    • ISBN: 0316225088
    • Brand: Brand: Orbit
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    This special boxed set includes the first three books in Iain M. Banks's modern classic science fiction series, The Culture. The boxed set is the perfect introduction to the The Culture, a utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination."Banks writes with a... [Read More]

  • The Player of Games (A Culture Novel Book 2)

    • ASIN: B002WM3HC2
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Against a Dark Background

    • ASIN: B002CT0TXK
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Use of Weapons (A Culture Novel Book 3)

    • ASIN: B0015DWLTE
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Transition

    • ASIN: 0316071994
    • ISBN: 0316071994
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presi... [Read More]

  • Look to Windward (A Culture Novel Book 7)

    • ASIN: B001D20270
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

  • The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 10)

    • ASIN: B0081BU42O
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    The New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies... [Read More]

  • Feersum Endjinn: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0553374591
    • ISBN: 0553374591
    • Brand: Brand: Spectra
    • Manufacturer: Spectra

    Ever since his stunning novel The Wasp Factory set readers on fire, Iain M. Banks has been defying category and convention with his thrilling speculative fiction. Now he goes a step beyond his previous imaginative journeys to create his most exciting and provocative science fiction novel yet.Count Alandre Sessine VII has already died seven times. H... [Read More]

  • Excession

    • ASIN: 185723457X
    • ISBN: 9781857234572
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Time Warner Books Uk

    Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.Now it is back.'Banks is a phenomenon ... wildly successful, fearlessly creative' William Gibson'Thrilling, affecting and comic .... [Read More]

  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past Book 1)

    • ASIN: B00IQO403K
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    "Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret mil... [Read More]

  • Inversions

    • ASIN: 0671036688
    • ISBN: 0671036688
    • Brand: Brand: Atria
    • Manufacturer: Atria

    In a world with little technology, the elusive but effective Dr. Vosill has quickly established herself as physician to the king, and her enemies want to know why. Reprint.

  • Rogue Starship (Outworld Ranger Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0711M36Q2

    Daring Adventure, Sentient AI’s, Alien MysteriesWhen renowned archeologist Gav Gendin discovers the wreck of an Ancient starship, with a stasis pod and a still living member of the extinct aliens inside, it should be the greatest triumph of his career. Instead, it ends in disaster and leads to his son, Siv, being placed in cryogenic sleep. A cent... [Read More]

  • The Algebraist

    • ASIN: 1841492299
    • ISBN: 1841492299
    • Brand: ORBIT
    • Manufacturer: Time Warner Books Uk

    It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dis... [Read More]

  • The State of the Art

    • ASIN: 1597800740
    • ISBN: 1597800740
    • Brand: Brand: Night Shade Books
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

    The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horro... [Read More]

  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy Book 1)

    • ASIN: B002ZDJZO2
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Raw Spirit

    • ASIN: 0099460270
    • ISBN: 9780099460275
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Arrow

    Raw Spirit

  • The Business: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0743200152
    • ISBN: 0743200152
    • Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Who Do You Work For? The Business, a nearly omnipotent enterprise, is so infinitely discreet that even its top executives are vague about its actual business. It predates the Christian church and counts among its vast riches dozens of Michelangelo's pornographic paintings and several sets of Crown jewels. The only thing it lacks is political clout... [Read More]

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