Look to Windward

2002 Caste

Author : Iain Banks
Release : 2002
Genre : Caste
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)

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.

The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks

2018-07-26 Literary Criticism

Author : Simone Caroti
Release : 2018-07-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 407/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks by : Simone Caroti

Download or read book The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks written by Simone Caroti. This book was released on 2018-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical history of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks' death. It considers Banks' origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas (1987). His 1994 essay "A Few Notes on the Culture" is included, along with a range of critical responses to the 10 Culture books he published in his lifetime and a discussion of the series' status as utopian literature. Banks was a complex man, both in his everyday life and on the page. This work aims at understanding the Culture series not only as a fundamental contribution to science fiction but also as a product of its creator's responses to the turbulent times he lived in.

Consider Phlebas

2009-12-01 Fiction

Author : Iain M. Banks
Release : 2009-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Consider Phlebas by : Iain M. Banks

Download or read book Consider Phlebas written by Iain M. Banks. This book was released on 2009-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, 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 of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. 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

Inversions

2007-10-19 Fiction

Author : Iain M. Banks
Release : 2007-10-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 785/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inversions written by Iain M. Banks. This book was released on 2007-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.

Matter

2009-02-10 Fiction

Author : Iain M. Banks
Release : 2009-02-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 72X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Matter by : Iain M. Banks

Download or read book Matter written by Iain M. Banks. This book was released on 2009-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head. "Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget." —The Times In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one — maybe two — people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity — and her particular set of abilities — might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter. 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

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