Iain M. Banks

In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war....

The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction....

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space....

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....

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported....

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents....

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction....

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization....

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

It is 4034 AD. Humanity lives among the stars. Fassin Taak will be lucky if he makes it to the end of the year....

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but 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.

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....

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time....

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh....

Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'.

In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war....

Die KULTUR – eine Gesellschaft, in der Menschen und Maschinen zusammenleben – hat viele großartige Spieler hervorgebracht, doch niemand ist besser als Jernau Morat Gurgeh. Der König der Strategien. Der Meister aller Spiele.

In ferner Zukunft haben die Maschinen entschieden, eine perfekte Gesellschaft zu bauen - die "Kultur". Eine Gesellschaft, die alle Völker...