Iain M Banks achieved immense acclaim and success for his first novel, The Wasp Factory. It is an unusual story with a surprising twist which caught the imagination of many readers and won him a large audience. Banks followed the Wasp Factory with Consider Phlebas, and The Bridge, a surreal novel about the Forth bridge, a car accident and a nightmare. In 1987, Iain M Banks turned his attention to science fiction and published the first of his Culture novels Consider Phlebas For the Culture books and subsequent science fiction novels, he took on the name Iain M Banks, incorporating his middle name 'Menzies'.
Book Review:The war raged across the galaxy, billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves faced destruction. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake, there could be no surrender.
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Book Review:Cheradenine Zakalwe became a powerful man through his various intrigues, dirty tricks and military action. While this was in servitude to the Culture no one really knew of his history.
Book Review:Silent, motionless, the artifact waits. The Culture cannot afford to wait. It must secure the situation before a crisis ensues which threatens everything. One person has seen the artifact on its arrival and the Culture ships must find her.
Book Review:This is the story of two stories. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal and linked more closely than even those involved can know - each one climbs to its own devastating climax.
Book Review:Two suns were destroyed in a war eight hundred years ago. Now the after-fall is finally arriving.
Book Review:Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith`s apotheosis. And her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
Book Review:The Glitz civilisation is preparing to elevate to the Sublime when the High Command is destroyed.Vyr Cossont must find out who is guilty and prevent other altercation amid an atmosphere of distrust, chaod and murder.