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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1997
EXCESSION
by Iain M. Banks
"Not Invented Here and Shoot Them Later) don't compensate for the absence of real characters."
From versatile Scottish writer Banks, another sf yarn about the tolerant, diverse, far-future Culture (The Player of Games, 1989, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 1995
FEERSUM ENDJINN
by Iain M. Banks
"Dazzling stuff: a shame it doesn't add up."
Intricate, disconcerting far-future saga from the author The Player of Games (1989), etc., in which the Encroachment, a cloud of space dust, threatens to extinguish all life on Earth. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 13, 1995
Kirkus Star COMPLICITY
by Iain M. Banks
"Literate and satisfying, with a very nice ending."
An engrossing thriller in which all the murder victims apparently deserve, if not their cruel fates, at least a reckoning, leaving the hero (and the reader) with a guilty sense of admiration and appreciation for the clever serial killer. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 22, 1989
THE PLAYER OF GAMES
by Iain M. Banks
"Predictable, certainly, and less imaginative than Phlebas, but technically much more solid: honorably crafted work, often engrossing despite some sluggish patches."
Following Consider Phlebas (1988), another distant-future yarn featuring the Culture—a tolerant, relaxed, moneyless civilization unobtrusively directed by superintelligent machine Minds. Read full book review >