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Hugely entertaining'Daily TelegraphA couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London's East End, cool but doomed demolition and redevelopment slated fro the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the rood towards the deserted car park a hundred feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of t...

Apocalyptic is the first word that springs to mind to describe this violent and powerful novel in which Banks once again demostrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination . . . impressive' The TimesHisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's sh...

An exceptional talent . . . a totally absorbing read'The TimesA man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge - a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future, fuse. Who is this man? Where is he? Is he more dead than alive? Or has he never been so alive before?'A stunning book. Banks' powerful i...

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...

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh ...

Utterly absorbing . . . Addictive, funny and brilliantly observed' Stephanie Cross, Daily MailStewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, the estuary town north of Aberdeen that on a bleak day can seem to offer little more than sea-fog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. After a five-year exile, Stewart's presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, even though the last time Stu saw the Murston...

Zurück zu den Anfängen der Kultur Die ferne Zukunft: Die Menschheit hat sich in den letzten zehntausend Jahren in der Galaxis ausgebreitet. Künstliche Intelligenzen, denkende Raumschiffe und Mensch-Maschine-Wesen sind nun der Alltag in der sogenannten KULTUR. Doch wie hat all das einmal angefangen? Als die herrschende Elite einer alten Zivilisation komplett ausgelöscht wird, wird schnell eine Verdächtige präsentiert - doch Lieutenant Vyr Cosso...

The brilliant new Iain Banks novel, a Little, Brown hardback.

Fue uno de los incidentes menos gloriosos de una antigua guerra. Provocó la destrucción de dos soles y de los miles de millones de vidas que sustentaban. Ahora, ochocientos años después, la luz del primero de estos antiguos errores ha llegado al orbital de la Cultura Masadaq. La luz del segundo podría no llegar a hacerlo. Iain M. Banks está considerado como uno de los escritores más innovadores de la narrativa británica actual. A barlovento es...

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There are so many larger-than-life characters in this wonderful novel . . . It is the story of one young man's getting of wisdom, an oblique but observant history of Britain from the 1980s to the present day, and a great game of consequences' Sunday TelegraphAfter years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family's highland estate, Garbadale. The Wopuld clan are closing ranks. They have built their fortune on the boardgame Empi...

Complicity n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, , phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular dayat the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper.The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop a...

There's no denying the bizarre fertility of the author's imagination: his brilliant dialogue, his cruel humour'Irish Times'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposedof Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a sta...

Engagingly told, cleverly constructed'Time Out'Two days ago I decided to kill myself . . . Last night I changed my mind and decided to stay alive. Everything that follows is . . . just to try and explain.'Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret for...

Exhilarating . . . A work of imagination and arresting originality'Sunday TelegraphThe war is ending, perhaps ended . . . For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land, where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. But the lieutenant of an outlaw band has ...

THE SCAVENGER SPECIES ARE CIRCLING.IT IS, TRULY, THE END DAYS FOR THE GZILT CIVILISATION.'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future . . . The Hydrogen Sonata confirms his pre-eminence in the field'GUARDIAN'Exuberant, slyly funny and mind-stretchingly imaginative'SUNDAY TIMES'The Hydrogen Sonata counts down to Sublimation, where an entire race leaves our universe to move spiritually upmarket. But scavengers ...

Latest paperback from one of our most highly acclaimed science fiction authors, telling a story of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal which builds to a devastating climax. Banks' reputation and readership are at an all-time high and sales of this title should be excellent. "As imaginative as anything Banks has written" "TLS". "An intriguing and powerfully realised tale" "New Scientist". A nationwide P.R. tour will include media interviews and ...

Abridged. 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 organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordin...

In a world renowned 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, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. The dazzling new Culture novel from one of the most exciting science-fiction writers ...

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.