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Consider Phlebas
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Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. 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, to actually find it - and with it their own destruction.Praise for the Culture series'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist

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State Of The Art
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The works 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.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name.From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the inde finable stamp of Banks's staggering talent.Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The novels of Iain M. Banks: The Culture seriesConsider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. BanksAgainst a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Feersum Endjinn
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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.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time . . .Chief Scientist Gad fium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been awaiting from the Plain of Sliding Stones . . .Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt . . .This is the time of the encroachment and everything is about to change. Although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, and the crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent - an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph Books by Iain M. Banks:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtAgainst a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Hydrogen Sonata
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost in finitely more rich and complex existence.But, amid preparations, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Vyr Cossont, a former soldier for the Gzilt, appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete a final mission; she must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might just hold the key to understanding what happened . . .The final days of the Gzilt civilisation may prove its most perilous.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Surface Detail
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The "War in Heaven", a simulated war game, rages between civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades, and the victors will decide the fate of the digital Hells - torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond imagination.In the Sichultian Enablement, Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.As the virtual war threatens to spill into the Real, Y'breq is willing to risk everything for her freedom - but she'll need the Culture, and its help comes at a price. The Culture is going to war with death itself.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Against A Dark Background
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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.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson Lady Sharrow was once the fearless leader of a combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the vicinity of the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz - a religious cult hellbent on assassinating her - and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz track her down.Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph Books by Iain M. Banks:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtAgainst a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Look to windward
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Neskol''ko stoletij nazad zakonchilas'' Idiranskaya vojna ? samyj masshtabnyj konflikt v istorii galaktiki. No tol''ko sejchas svet Novyh-Bliznecov ? zvezd, unichtozhennyh v poslednej i samoj zhestokoj bitve idiran s Kul''turoj, ? dostignet orbitalishcha Masak, gde zhivet Mahraj Ciller, znamenityj na vsyu galaktiku kompozitor i dissident-chelgrianin, i gde dolzhna sostoyat''sya prem''era ego novoj simfonii, posvyashchennoj Bitve Novyh-Bliznecov i vsej Idiranskoj vojne. No chelgriane (edinstvennaya vysokorazvitaya civilizaciya, proisshedshaya ot hishchnikov) polagayut, chto imenno Kul''tura vinovata v nedavno otbushevavshej na planete CHel grazhdanskoj vojne, ? i posylayut k Mahrayu Cilleru na Masak special''nogo ehmissara. Major Kvilan prizvan ubedit'' Cillera vernut''sya na CHel ? no na dele ego missiya kuda masshtabnee?Klassicheskij roman iz cikla o Kul''ture ? v novom perevode!

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Matter
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Princ Ferbin chudom ucelel posle bitvy, v kotoroj pogib ego otec - korol' Hausk, povelitel' sarlov, naselyayushchih Vos'moj uroven' pustotela Sursamen. Vynuzhdennyj spasat' svoyu zhizn', princ pokidaet ehtu iskusstvennuyu planetu - odnu iz tysyach, s nevedomoj cel'yu postroennyh vymershim bolee milliarda let nazad vidom, izvestnym kak Mantiya, - i otpravlyaetsya na poiski svoej sestry Dzhan Serij Anaplian, za gody ih razluki uspevshej stat' agentom Osobyh Obstoyatel'stv sluzhby Kontakta sverhcivilizacii Kul'tura. No i Dzhan ne mozhet ob"yasnit', otchego Sursamen, osobenno ego primitivnyj po galakticheskim merkam Vos'moj uroven', vdrug privlek takoe pristal'noe vnimanie stol'kih mogushchestvennyh civilizacij... Perevod publikuetsya v novoj redakcii.

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The Algebraist
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V 4034 g. n. eh. ob"edinyayushchaya mnozhestvo ras mogushchestvennaya Merkatoriya, vozglavlyaemyj arhimandritom Lyuseferusom kul't Zamorysha i anarhisty-zapredel'cy soshlis' na okraine galaktiki v sisteme YUlyubisa, u gazovogo giganta Naskeron. Dostatochno bylo sluha, chto naskeronskie nasel'niki obladayut klyuchom k tak nazyvaemomu nasel'nicheskomu spisku: ved' tot, kto najdet ehto legendarnoe algebraicheskoe preobrazovanie, poluchit dostup k koordinatam portalov grandioznoj seti transportnyh chervotochin, pronizyvayushchih galaktiku. Odnako nasel'niki - starejshaya razumnaya rasa, za milliardy let uspevshaya zaselit' bol'shinstvo gazovyh gigantov izvestnoj Vselennoj, - revnostno hranyat svoj sekret... Vas zhdet samaya masshtabnaya kosmicheskaya opera novogo veka!

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USE OF WEAPONS; THE STATE OF THE ART
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Klassicheskij (i, po mneniyu mnogih, luchshij) roman iz cikla o Kul''ture - v novom perevode! Edinstvennyj v bibliografii znamenitogo shotlandca sbornik (vklyuchayushchij bol''shuyu zaglavnuyu povest'' o Kul''ture zhe) - vpervye na russkom!CHeradenin Zakalve, rodilsya i vyros vne Kul''tury i uzhe v dovol''no zrelom vozraste stal agentom Osobyh Obstoyatel''stv Â«kul''turnojÂ» sluzhby Kontakta. Kak i u bol''shinstva geroev Behnksa, v proshlom u nego taitsya zhutkovataya tajna, opredelyayushchaya liniyu povedeniya. Blestyashchij voenachal''nik, Zakalve rabotaet svoego roda provokatorom, gotovyashchim v otstalyh mirah pochvu dlya progressorov iz Kontakta. V otlichie ot urozhencev Kul''tury, emu est'' radi chego srazhat''sya i chto dokazyvat'', kak samomu sebe, tak i okruzhayushchim. Golovokruzhitel''naya smelost'', prezrenie k risku, neumenie proigryvat'' ? vse ehto sledstviya moshchnoj psihicheskoj travmy, kotoruyu Zakalve perezhil mnogo let nazad i kotoraya otkroetsya lish'' v finale.

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Excession
av Iain M Banks
Idiranskaya vojna, dlivshayasya pyat'desyat let i unesshaya sotni milliardov zhiznej, zavershilas' neskol'ko vekov nazad. Kul'tura - sodruzhestvo prodvinutyh civilizacij i iskusstvennyh intellektov, - yavlyayas' naibolee moshchnoj siloj vo Vselennoj, opekaet bolee primitivnye rasy. V chisle takih podopechnyh i obitateli gazovyh gigantov, izvestnye kak Hamy, harakter kotoryh polnost'yu sootvetstvuet ih nazvaniyu. No vse karty smeshivayutsya, kogda u dalekoj zvezdy EHsperi voznikaet fizicheski nevozmozhnyj ob"ekt EHkscessiya - budto by relikt "predydushchej" Vselennoj... Klassicheskij roman iz cikla o Kul'ture - v novom perevode!

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Muista Flebasta
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Mustalla huumorilla höystetty salamannopea, nerokkaasti sommiteltu ja psykologisesti oivaltava maailma

Koko galaksi kävi sotaa. Miljardit olivat jo kuolleet ja miljardeja tulisi vielä kuolemaan. Kuita, planeettoja ja tähtiä tultaisiin tuhoamaan tunteilematta ja sattumanvaraisesti. Idiriläiset taistelivat uskonsa puolesta, Kulttuuri oikeuttaakseen olemassaolonsa. Kyse oli periaatteista. Antautuminen ei tullut kysymykseen.

Keskellä kosmista taistelua oli käynnissä yksityinen ristiretki. Syvällä kuivan ja karun maailman, kuolevaisilta suljetun kuolleiden planeetan uumenissa ja labyrintin kätköissä piileskeli uuden sukupolven mieli. Sekä Kulttuuri että idiriläiset halusivat sen itselleen. Horza oli muuttuja ja hänen seurueensa joukko epäluotettavia palkkasotureita, ihmisiä ja koneita. Heidän kohtalonsa olisi löytää mieli ja samalla kohdata oma tuhonsa.

Muista Flebasta on tyrmäävän vahva ja mielikuvituksellinen avaruusooppera, jonka mittakaava ylittää inhimillisen käsityskyvyn. Se on ensimmäinen Iain M. Banksin Kulttuurista kertova kirja. Kauan kaivatun uusintapainoksen tarkistetun suomennoksen on laatinut Ville Keynäs.

Iain Banks (1954-2013) oli skotlantilainen kirjailija. Erityisen tunnettu Banks on Kulttuuri-sarjastaan.

"Fantastista mielikuvituksen loistavaa kirjoa, vauhdikkaita tapahtumia ja avaruusoopperan raikuvia sointuja. - Taikakirjaimet

"Yksi vuosikymmenen häikäisevimmistä ja pisimmälle viedyistä avaruusseikkailuista." - Chicago Sun Times

" Banks on ilmiö!" - William Gibson

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Pelaaja
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Nerokas ja riemastuttavan kekseliäs syväsukellus aikaan ja avaruuteen, tekoälyyn, peleihin, moraaliin - ja valtaan.

Kulttuuri, ihmisten ja koneiden yhteinen, symbioottinen yhteiskunta, on aikojen saatossa tuottanut lukuisia loistavia pelaajia. Yksi loistavimmista on Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Pelaaja, kaikkien lauta-, verkko- ja strategiapelien mestari.

Menestykseensä kyllästynyt Gurgeh matkustaa Azadin julmaan ja käsittämättömän vauraaseen imperiumiin kokeillakseen saman nimistä peliä - niin monimutkaista ja elämän kaltaista, että sen voittaja kruunataan keisariksi. Pilkattuna, kiristettynä ja likipitäen murhattuna Gurgeh ottaa haasteen vastaan ja osallistuu kilpailuun pannen peliin elämänsä, hyvin todennäköisesti myös kuolemansa.

Pelaaja on Iain M. Banksin Kulttuuri-sarjan toinen osa, joka julkaistaan nyt Ville Keynäksen täysin uudistettuna suomennoksena. Lukuisat tunnetut ihmiset, kuten muun muassa Amazonin perustaja Jeff Bezos, ovat nimenneet Kulttuurin suosikkisarjakseen.

Iain Banks (1954-2013) oli skotlantilainen kirjailija. Erityisen tunnettu Banks on Kulttuuri-sarjastaan.

"Banksin luomissa maisemissa on rohkeaa jylhyyttä." - Portti

"Banks on kirjallisesti kunnianhimoinen, joten hän ei tyydy jäljittelemään menneitä menestysteoksia tai toistamaan perinteisiä kaavoja." -Tähtivaeltaja

"Fantastista mielikuvituksen loistavaa kirjoa, vauhdikkaita tapahtumia ja avaruusoopperan raikuvia sointuja. - Taikakirjaimet

"Yksi vuosikymmenen häikäisevimmistä ja pisimmälle viedyistä avaruusseikkailuista." - Chicago Sun Times

"Banks on ilmiö!" - William Gibson

"Runollisia, hauskoja, hämmentäviä, pelottavia, haluttavia - Iain M. Banksin kirjat ovat tätä kaikkea, ja enemmän!" - New Musical Express

"Eeppinen mittakaava, korkealle kurottavat ideat ja koukuttava toteutus." - Independent on Sunday

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Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
av Caroti Simone Caroti
This critical history of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks' death. It considers Banks' origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas (1987). His 1994 essay "A Few Notes on the Culture" is included, along with a range of critical responses to the 10 Culture books he published in his lifetime and a discussion of the series' status as utopian literature. Banks was a complex man, both in his everyday life and on the page. This work aims at understanding the Culture series not only as a fundamental contribution to science fiction but also as a product of its creator's responses to the turbulent times he lived in.

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Iain M. Banks
av Kincaid Paul Kincaid
The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream books vaulted him to the top of the Scottish literary scene. Paul Kincaid has written the first study of Iain M. Banks to explore the confluence of his SF and literary techniques and sensibilities. As Kincaid shows, the two powerful aspects of Banks's work flowed into each other, blurring a line that critics too often treat as clear-cut. Banks's gift for black humor and a honed skepticism regarding politics and religion found expression even as he orchestrated the vast, galaxy-spanning vistas in his novels of the Culture. In examining Banks's entire SF oeuvre, Kincaid unlocks the set of ideas Banks drew upon, ideas that spoke to an unusually varied readership that praised him as a visionary and reveled in the distinctive character of his works. Entertaining and broad in scope, Iain M. Banks offers new insights on one of the most admired figures in contemporary science fiction.

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