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Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy
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. By the author of the "Culture" sequence.
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
Feersum Endjinn SF Masterwork by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt...And everything is about to change ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: good
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man 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 ...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
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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 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.