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Against a Dark Background

2009-07-01 Fiction
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Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Against a Dark Background by : Iain M. Banks

Download or read book Against a Dark Background written by Iain M. Banks. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her. Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.

Use of Weapons

2008-12-22 Fiction
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Release : 2008-12-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 799/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Use of Weapons by : Iain M. Banks

Download or read book Use of Weapons written by Iain M. Banks. This book was released on 2008-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

Look to Windward

2002 Caste
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Release : 2002
Genre : Caste
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Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Look to Windward by : Iain Banks

Download or read book Look to Windward written by Iain Banks. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its world-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq Orbital, home to the Culture. Major Quilan has supposedly come to take the exiled Composer Ziller back to their war-ravaged home world, Chel. But despite the major's civilized veneer, his true mission may be the death and destruction of an entire civilization.

A Song of Stone

1999-09-07 Fiction
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Release : 1999-09-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 364/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Song of Stone by : Iain Banks

Download or read book A Song of Stone written by Iain Banks. This book was released on 1999-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a war-torn country not unlike Bosnia, this internationally bestselling novel concerns a band of soldiers who find refuge in a rural castle.

Iain M. Banks

2017-05-12 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-05-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Iain M. Banks by : Paul Kincaid

Download or read book Iain M. Banks written by Paul Kincaid. This book was released on 2017-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream books vaulted him to the top of the Scottish literary scene. Paul Kincaid has written the first study of Iain M. Banks to explore the confluence of his SF and literary techniques and sensibilities. As Kincaid shows, the two powerful aspects of Banks's work flowed into each other, blurring a line that critics too often treat as clear-cut. Banks's gift for black humor and a honed skepticism regarding politics and religion found expression even as he orchestrated the vast, galaxy-spanning vistas in his novels of the Culture. In examining Banks's entire SF oeuvre, Kincaid unlocks the set of ideas Banks drew upon, ideas that spoke to an unusually varied readership that praised him as a visionary and reveled in the distinctive character of his works. Entertaining and broad in scope, Iain M. Banks offers new insights on one of the most admired figures in contemporary science fiction.

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