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Against a Dark Backgroundby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292250 (0-553-29225-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Algebraistby Iain M. BanksISBN 1597800449 (1-59780-044-9)
Softcover, Night Shade Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Algebraist'Book summary: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, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.[via] 
The Also Peopleby Ben AaronovitchISBN 0426204565 (0-426-20456-5)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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The Bridgeby Iain M. BanksISBN 0061001082 (0-06-100108-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Consider Phlebasby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292811 (0-553-29281-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Consider Phlebas'Book summary: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 to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination. [via]
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Excessionby Iain BanksISBN 0553575376 (0-553-57537-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excession'Book summary:Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.
There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.
From the Paperback edition. [via] 
Feersum Endjinnby Iain M. BanksISBN 1857232356 (1-85723-235-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feersum Endjinn'Book summary:In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars, those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world. (B 4worned, 1 oph Banx' carrokters theenx en funetic inglish, which makes for some tough reading but also some innovative prose.) [via]
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The First Man in Romeby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0380710811 (0-380-71081-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Man in Rome'Book summary:With astounding narrative power, Colleen Mccullough--author of the internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller "The Thorn Birds"--sweeps the reader into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was ancient Rome. [via]
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Inversionsby Iain BanksISBN 1857236262 (1-85723-626-2)
Hardcover, Orbit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inversions'Book summary:Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas," is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess.
Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct.
No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal. "Inversions" is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers. [via]
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Look to Windwardby Iain M. BanksISBN 0743421922 (0-7434-2192-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Look to Windward'Book summary:A classic in science fiction, Banks's novel is about a war so powerful it destroyed two suns and the billions of lives they supported. [via]
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The Player of Gamesby Iain M. BanksISBN 0061000981 (0-06-100098-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Player of Games'Book summary:In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. It's a playground society of sports, stellar cruises, parties, and festivals. Jernau Gurgeh, a famed master game player, is looking for something more and finds it when he's invited to a game tournament at a small alien empire. Abruptly Banks veers into different territory. The Empire of Azad is exotic, sensual, and vibrant. It has space battle cruisers, a glowing court--all the stuff of good old science fiction--which appears old-fashioned in contrast to Gurgeh's home. At first it's a relief, but further exploration reveals the empire to be depraved and terrifically unjust. Its defects are gross exaggerations of our own, yet they indict us all the same. Clearly Banks is interested in the idea of a future where everyone can be mature and happy. Yet it's interesting to note that in order to give us this compelling adventure story, he has to return to a more traditional setting. Thoughtful science fiction readers will appreciate the cultural comparisons, and fans of big ideas and action will also be rewarded. --Brooks Peck [via]
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The State of the Artby Iain M. BanksISBN 1597800740 (1-59780-074-0)
Softcover, Nightshade Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The State of the Art'Book summary:The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent. [via]
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- The State of the Art: ISBN 189238938X (1-892389-38-X)
Hardcover, Night Shade Books - The State of the Art: ISBN 0929480066 (0-929480-06-6)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing - The State of the Art: ISBN 0929480074 (0-929480-07-4)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing - The State of the Art: ISBN 1597800740 (1-59780-074-0)
Softcover, Nightshade Book
- The State of the Art: ISBN 189238938X (1-892389-38-X)
State of the Art: Short Stories by the New Irish Writersby David MarcusISBN 0340574003 (0-340-57400-3)
Hardcover, Sceptre
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Use of Weaponsby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292242 (0-553-29224-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Use of Weapons'Book summary:Called back from early retirement by Special Circumstances, the elite weapon of the Culture's policy of moral espionage, Cheradenine Zakalwe reluctantly returns to work, but his fatal flaw could cost them the battle. Reprint. [via]
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L'homme Des Jeuxby Iain Banks, Helene CollonISBN 2253071854 (2-253-07185-4)
Hardcover, Robert Laffont
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