Iain M. Banks

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one who could clear his name....

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. And it begins with a murder....

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

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....

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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'.

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

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers....

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.

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

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

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the people who could clear his name....

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.