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Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLS 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 wi...

The Business is a nearly omnipotent and infinitely discreet transglobal organization whose origins predate the Christian Church, if not the Roman Empire (which the Business actually owned for sixty-six days). Financially transparent, internally democratic, and morally dispassionate, the actual business of the Business seems-even to Kate Telman, a senior executive-to be vague to the point of invisibility. Counted among its vast riches are a boo...

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Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy ...

En uno de los mundos más célebres de una galaxia llena de prodigios se produce un crimen en plena guerra. Para un hombre significa una huida desesperada y la búsqueda de la única persona (o quizá sean dos) que podría limpiar su nombre. Para su hermano significa una vida bajo la amenaza constante de la traición y el asesinato. Y para la hermana de ambos, incluso sin saber toda la verdad, significa el regreso a un lugar que creía haber abandonad...

An explosive new science fiction novel from the UK's bestselling writer in the genre. It is 4034 AD and humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.

Originally published: Great Britain: Orbit, 2000.

A torturer, a hedge fund manager, and a reluctant assassin are among the strange characters found in "Transition, " a work described by the London "Times" as unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget.

Local journalist Cameron Colley sticks up for the underdog, often exposing prominent people who take advantage of the less fortunate. The trouble is that a twisted serial killer seems to have the same motives, committing murder on behalf of the same kind of underdogs.

Publishers Weekly"[Banks's] impeccable prose undulates with poetry and sensuality that transform the most ordinary movements of his tale into resonant images of beauty and terror.

Seit Jahrzehnten tobt ein Krieg, der über das Leben nach dem Tod entscheidet Wenn der Tod nicht mehr das Ende ist, weil jedes Bewusstsein digital gespeichert wird, wenn die Massenspeicher von Himmel und Hölle zum Angriff rüsten, wenn eine junge Frau für ihre Rache die Grenzen zwischen Raum und Zeit überwindet und nur ein Mann die größte aller Schlachten verhindern kann - dann entbrennt ein Krieg, der die Grenzen zwischen Realität und den digit...