Iain M. Banks

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

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action....

Consider Phlebas: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Consider Phlebas introduces listeners to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war and morality....

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.

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.

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed....

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

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

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