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The Novels of Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Within the cosmic conflict, there was an individual crusade: deep within a fabled labyrinth lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it.
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The Player of Games
Bored with success, Gurgel - The Player of Games - travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. This is a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Use of Weapons
Cheradenine is an ex-'special circumstance' agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence can see the horrors in his past.
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The State of the Art
A collection of short fiction by Iain M Banks. The title story is a novella continuing the 'Culture' sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
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Against A Dark Background
Sharrow was once a warrior-spy and leader of a combat team. Living in a state of semi-retirement, she suddenly found herself the target of the Huhsz, a religious cult, and realised that she had to find and reform her old team if she had any hope of survival.
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Feersum Endjinn
In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars, those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world.
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Excession
Two and a half millennia ago, the Excession, a perfect black sphere, appeared in a remote corner of space. It did nothing, then disappeared. Now it is back, and someone who saw it the first time has information on its staggering potential, but she is living out her death in the Sleeper Service.
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Inversions
Besides extra moons in the sky and stories of devastating meteor showers that toppled a former Empire, this novel's squalid, pre-industrial world seems to have no sci-fi elements. The two entwined stories feature a woman who becomes personal physician to one kingdom's absolute monarch, and the male bodyguard of a rival and more 'progressive' country's Cromwell-like Protector. Both protagonists are mysterious outsiders from farther away than the King or Protector can ever imagine. Generous helpings of blood, violence, poisoning, ingenious deceits and high excitement, spiced with political philosophy.
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Look to Windward
Look to Windward revisits the Culture world of Consider Phlebas, exploring the complex aftermath of a rare Culture mistake that led to massive civil war and billions dead. A ghastly light is awaited in the sky from distant suns detonated in the war eight centuries earlier; an occasion for sombre festivity. Meanwhile a member of an alien race arrives on a mission whose dreadful nature emerges through fragments of slowly returning memory. Elsewhere, in the airsphere home of floating 'behemothaurs' almost too huge to imagine, the clue to what's happening falls belatedly into inexperienced hands...
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