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FICTION

Released: Nov. 8, 2000

THE BUSINESS

by Iain M. Banks

"Sprinkled with erudite puns ("Was I a Freudian? . . . no, I was a Schadenfreudian") and topical references: a smart, breezy, entertainment--something John Grisham might have written if, say, he were a better stylist with more imagination."

From the usually thought-provoking, even disturbing, Banks (A Song of Stone, 1998, etc.) comes a clever, well-paced, but surprisingly slight business thriller. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Aug. 1, 2001

LOOK TO WINDWARD

by Iain M. Banks

"By turns imposing, ingenious, whimsical, and wrenching, though too amorphous to fully satisfy."

Another of Banks's far-future Culture yarns (Inversions, 2000, etc.). Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Oct. 9, 2012

THE HYDROGEN SONATA

by Iain M. Banks

"Sheer delight."

Addition to Banks' wonderful space-opera series (without the middle initial, he also writes impressive mainstream novels) about the far-future galactic Culture (Surface Detail, 2010, etc.), a liberal-anarchic, multispecies civilization guided and sustained, more or less invisibly, by Minds, artificial intelligences that take such physical forms as spaceships and habitats. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Nov. 15, 2012

STONEMOUTH

by Iain Banks

"Contemporary, hilarious, gritty--yes, this is genre fiction, and no, the genre doesn't get much better than this."

This novel considers the question of how to return home after a long absence, particularly when your ex-fiancee is the eldest daughter of a local crime boss. Read full book review >

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