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Stonemouth by Iain Banks
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Category: General | Reading Level: good-very good
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for ...Show more
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power ...Show more
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: very good
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised 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, deciding n ...Show more
The Player Of Games (#2 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. 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, compute ...Show more
The Quarry by Iain Banks
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Category: General
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the da ...Show more
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". 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.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
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Category: General
'One of the most brilliant first novels I have come across' Telegraph 'One of the top 100 novels of the century' Independent'Brilliant...irresistible...compelling' New York Times'Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down' Financial Times 'Read it if you dare' Daily Express The Wasp Factory is a bi ...Show more
Use of Weapons (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but des ...Show more
Wasp Factory - Abacus 40th edition by Iain Banks
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Category: General | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different 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 a ...Show more