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An anthology featuring some of the biggest names in British genre fiction, including rare, previously uncollected stories by Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Justina Robson, Paul McAuley, Juliet E McKenna, Anne Nicholls, and Geoff Ryman, alongside original stories by Eric Brown, Ian R. MacLeod, Martin Sketchley, Kari Sperring, and Adrian Tchaikovsky. The rare reprints all appeared originally in souvenir booklets given to at...

It is 4034 AD. 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. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order,...

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This eighth novel of the Culture series centers on three siblings: Ferbin and Oramen, the misfit heirs of conquering King Hausk of the Sarl, and their exiled sister, Djan, now a powerful agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances division.

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It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be lucky if he makes it to the end of the year. The Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Unabridged audio edition of the new "Culture" novel. 6 CDs. Running time: 7hrs.

Mass market paperback edition of this latest "Culture" novel from Iain M. Banks, which will doubtless be eagerly anticipated by his legions of loyal readers. The publicity and marketing campaign will include nationwide railway posters, bus sides in Edinburgh during the festival, and a two-week author PR tour. "...a mordant wit, a certain savagery and a wild imagination". "Mail On Sunday".

Latest science fiction novel from Britain's best known writer in the genre. He is the author of >Use Of Weapons< and >Consider Phlebas< as well as >The Wasp Factory< (he drops the "M" for his non-sf titles). "Disturbing, witty and clever" >The FaceThe Times

Iain Banks' latest science fiction title is set in the universe of the Culture. The Excession has reappeared in a remote corner of space, but the one person who might be able to explain its incredible potential is not available. So the Excession waits, but the Culture needs to understand it before they fall into its hands. "Staggering imaginative energy" "Independent". Bank's other sci-fi titles include "Consider Phlebas" and "Feersum Endjinn".

**Soon to be adapted as a major TV series**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 bar...

The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art.

The latest paperback from Iain M. Banks, who continues to produce science-fiction writing of the very highest quality. >Feersum Endjinn < is an imaginative >tour de force< and a stunning novel of bravery and hope, fear, betrayal, strangeness and charm in the face of darkness. "There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness" >The Times

The third Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. 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 despite all their dealings she did not k...